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Artificial Intelligence's Hybrid, Public–Private Sense-Makers: The Geopolitical Race Case
What it is
A July 2026 open-access article in the Cambridge Forum on Technology and Global Affairs by Elisabeth Siegel (University of Oxford) examining how "hybrid epistemic experts" — figures straddling technical expertise, corporate leadership, and policy influence, with Eric Schmidt as the central case — constructed and amplified the "U.S.–China AI Race" narrative between 2015 and 2023. The article raises concerns about democratic governance and the concentration of AI knowledge production in private hands. Free to read (open access).
Why I recommend it
Explains how the AI race narrative was built by people who sit in boardrooms and policy rooms at the same time. Read it alongside the Yellow Techno-Peril paper for two complementary critiques of the same framing.
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