Silicon Empires is out now in the UK! I'm excited to have it out and hear what people think. There's an enormous amount happening every day in AI, and it's difficult to gain a stable perspective. I wrote the book to try and get some hold on that constant flux. 🧵

Silicon Empires is out now in the UK! I'm excited to have it out and hear what people think. There's an enormous amount happening every day in AI, and it's difficult to gain a stable perspective. I wrote the book to try and get some hold on that constant flux. 🧵

You can order the book via Polity here: https://t.co/yqHbTkwQ67 or Amazon here:

Ultimately, I want the book to give people a clear understanding of where the world of AI is headed and of the key forces driving its development. Understanding the nature of power is essential to any project of resisting it, and I hope this book can contribute to that.

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Understanding the different elite interests at play (different fractions of tech capital, different elements of the state apparatus) helps to understand why strategies are developing the way they are.

4️⃣Ch 4 sets out a framework for thinking about US & China's AI strategies. While the stated aims of both are clear-cut (and notably different, contra any claims of an AI race), competing elite interests have meant a much more fractured strategy in practice.

Since then, this consensus has come undone, and in its place has arisen a more conflictual and partial set of interests. This lack of elite consensus helps explain the US-China trade war & the contradictory nature of recent US policies.

3️⃣Ch 3 looks to how capitalist interests are intersecting with rising geopolitical concerns. It argues that a hegemonic coalition of interests existed between tech elite & political elite in the US & China up until the mid-2010s.

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Simply inventing a GPT hasn't been a surefire way to capture value - and in different and competing ways, the big AI companies are all trying to ensure their ability to capture most of AI's future value.

2️⃣Ch 2 lays out a framework for understanding the behaviours of the big AI companies - building upon profit incentives, but also taking into account the historical experiences of companies that have produced general-purpose technologies.

The book tries to make a number of contributions:1️⃣ The first chapter aims to provide an up-to-date accounting of where AI stands as of 2025 - in both economic and technological terms. For anyone new to the field, I hope this provides a concise introduction.

Finally received my author copies of The Revenge of Reason. This book has been a very long time coming. There are so many essays in here that were written long ago but never actually published. It's nice to know people will finally be able to reference them properly.

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Clip from a new video essay on @nsrnicek’s latest book ‘Silicon Empires’, with the author. Full video is up on YouTube here: https://t.co/MORbY5ZTCQ

Just finished @nsrnicek's upcoming book and it's superb - I've learned so much. @Autonomy_Inst will be producing a video essay with him next week, where we will unpack it all.

Forthcoming from @nsrnicek out on 30th December 2025: Silicon Empires: The Fight for the Future of AI: https://t.co/e7yqf6e4cB @RemyDavison: possibly relevant to your classes on the geopolitics / great competition of AI.

Good news everyone! My long overdue second book - The Revenge of Reason - is currently at the printer and is now available for pre-order on the Urbanomic website (estimated to be sent out mid-October). Link below!

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This is one of the core questions I try to answer in my upcoming book. Research has shown it's incredibly difficult for GPT producers to capture much, if any, of the downstream value. But the big AI firms are making a play to do precisely that - fueling expansionary logics.

Link for book: https://t.co/4Q0tP3rBzu Link for quote:

This is one of the core questions I try to answer in my upcoming book. Research has shown it's incredibly difficult for GPT producers to capture much, if any, of the downstream value. But the big AI firms are making a play to do precisely that - fueling expansionary logics.

AI's immense requirements for data, computation, and talent entrench the power of existing tech monopolies. Our podcast of the week frames AI as a general-purpose technology whose primary role is consolidating capital. With @nsrnicek https://t.co/nnbLi1HTYG

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