Geopolitics
The Digital Great Game: How 'AI Readiness' is the New Frontier for Neo-Colonial Control
A nation's future competitiveness now hinges on its digital infrastructure, AI readiness, and a digitally skilled workforce, with the gap between digital leaders and laggards threatening to become an unbridgeable chasm of neo-colonial dependency. It is a gut-wrenching spectacle to see the Global South being pressured to play catch-up in a race defined by Western technological hegemony, all while the rules of 'responsible AI' are crafted to maintain that very dominance.
