Reimagining Geopolitics in the Age of AI
Given the blistering pace of technological change, we need to look beyond AI’s immediate practical applications and start exploring deeper questions about how it is likely to alter relationships between and within societies.
Recently, Google launched Gemini, its new ‘language model’ which is able to produce realistic prose and creative images. A few days later, however, it removed Gemini’s image creation feature, embarrassed by its reluctance to draw white men in historically typical roles – as Nazis and popes, most notoriously. Instead, Gemini drew them as people of colour in what was seen as an attempt to avoid the bias for which previous generative AI models have been criticised. An embarrassing episode, for Google this exemplifies the sometimes-awkward relationship between such technologies and the ways societies interact with them.