Section 13 · Section
Political Economy and Geopolitics
الاقتصاد السياسي والجغرافيا السياسية
This chapter analyses the economic and political forces that shape artificial intelligence: concentration, labour, supply chains, inter-state competition, sovereignty and funding. It differs from Chapter 7, which explains the technical infrastructure of compute, from Chapter 12, which addresses values and rights, and from Chapter 14, which presents regulation and standards.
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الفروع| Code | Branch | Scope | Entries |
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| 13.1 | Concentration and Monopoly | Covers the analysis of the concentration of capability, markets, data and talent in the hands of a few actors, and its effects on competition, innovation and dependency | 0 |
| 13.2 | Impact of Agents on Work and Productivity | Covers the study of the effect of agentic systems on jobs, skills, wages, productivity and the structure of the labour market | 0 |
| 13.3 | Supply Chains: Chips, Cloud, Data and Energy | Covers the structure of the supply chains on which artificial intelligence depends, namely chips, cloud, data and energy, and their points of interdependence and bottleneck | 0 |
| 13.4 | Export Controls and Geopolitical Competition | Covers states' use of technology restrictions as instruments of competition and influence, the reactions to them and their effect on the distribution of capability | 0 |
| 13.5 | Digital Sovereignty and Digital Decolonization | Covers the discourse and practice of states and societies controlling their own digital decisions and resisting dependency and knowledge and data exploitation | 0 |
| 13.6 | Sovereign Funding and Sovereign Wealth Funds | Covers public and sovereign financing instruments for artificial intelligence capability: sovereign funds, public-private partnerships, and national investment policies and their economic logic | 0 |
| 13.7 | The Machine-to-Machine Economy | Covers the economic analysis of automated agents dealing with one another: payments, markets, negotiation and the pricing of services between systems | 0 |