The tech everyone’s talking about has become a feature of global competition.
In his blog post The Golden Opportunity for American AI, Brad Smith, Vice Chair & President of Microsoft, wrote that “the United States is in a strong position to win the essential race with China by advancing international adoption of American AI”.
The former Biden administration laid the groundwork for this with the CHIPS and Science Act ($US52.7bn for American semiconductor research, development, manufacturing, and workforce development) and it’s likely the Trump administration will seek out yet more ways to gain an AI advantage over China/everyone.
If one country is reliant on another country (ally or not) for its AI models or tech infrastructure, this raises reasonable safety concerns at the individual, enterprise, and national levels. On the business front, the matter of who supplies and controls your tech is a growing area of exposure (think cost, security, control, regulation, etc), so leaders need to be both aware and involved.
As Dragoş Tudorache, Member of the European Parliament and Chair of the Special Committee on AI, told us in our Skills Horizon 2025 report:
“AI is geopolitical. The more relevant you are in the AI world, the more you play an important role in the geopolitical conversation, similar to what happened with atomic energy.”
In AI and Geopolitics we explore the three key areas where AI and geopolitics intersect, then outline seven ways AI is being used around the world as a means of gaining advantage.
From AI to defence to trade, the new US President has had a sweeping and immediate geopolitical impact. Find out what that means on a local level in ‘One month of Trump: The Australian business briefing’, a free webinar on Thursday, 6 March 2025 led by Hayley Channer, Director, Economic Security, United States Studies Centre, and Merriden Varrall from KPMG’s Geopolitics Hub.