The geopolitics of artificial intelligence

Artificial intelligence is no longer merely a technical tool — it is rapidly reshaping global power, competition, and cooperation.

‘Geopolitics of Artificial Intelligence’ explores how AI is transforming relations between states, corporations and societies, creating significant economic and governance opportunities while also generating new risks, from intensifying geopolitical rivalries to the erosion of global cooperation and threats to sovereignty and democratic self-determination.

The book argues that existing political and regulatory frameworks are ill-equipped to address these challenges, as AI risks and geopolitical tensions increasingly reinforce one another — often driven by powerful non-state actors like technology firms. It proposes a new ethical and governance framework grounded in shared responsibility, structural justice and global equality, offering a vision for managing AI’s benefits and harms more fairly in an unequal world.

Join the FCCT for a discussion with the book’s two authors.

Brian Wong is an HKU-100 Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Hong Kong and a non-resident honorary fellow at the Asia Society Center for China Analysis. A Rhodes Scholar, his research spans geopolitics, technology ethics and authoritarian governance, and his commentary on China and Asian geopolitics regularly appears in leading international media.

Boris Babic is an Associate Professor of data science, philosophy and law at the University of Hong Kong and a principal investigator at the AI and Humanity Lab. His research focuses on the ethics, law and policy of artificial intelligence, including generative AI, and has been published in leading journals such as Science and Nature Machine Intelligence.

Moderator: Panu Wongcha-um, FCCT President and Reuters senior correspondent

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