A review by mikefromco
Four Battlegrounds: Power in the Age of Artificial Intelligence by Paul Scharre

hopeful informative medium-paced

4.0

This book reads like an extremely long WSJ/Bloomberg article. 

It’s very current (published in 2023) and that’s both good and bad, I suspect it will be badly dated even five years from now but right now it’s really quite good. Has a bit of a right wing skew but very small, just kind of an assumption that the military is a good thing and the US should remain be dominate power. 

Extremely honest discussion of misuse of AI re:  Uyghurs and other minorities and the risks of bad training data. 

This book was very dry at times but combined with Chris Miller’s Chip War I really feel I better understand this area of tech and geopolitics better.