🗣 Harari: Britain can be a US "vassal" or pay £500 billion for its own AI
If a country's economy and military run on AI infrastructure "that the Americans can shut down at the press of a button," it's no longer independent, Yuval Noah Harari told Rory Stewart on The Rest Is Politics. He calls it "a real imminent threat."
He sees three options for Britain. Accept being a US vassal, and then whenever Washington says jump, you jump, even if it asks you to give the Falklands to Argentina.
Or build UK AI. The price is around £500 billion, paid for with cuts to welfare, education and transport.
If a country's economy and military run on AI infrastructure "that the Americans can shut down at the press of a button," it's no longer independent, Yuval Noah Harari told Rory Stewart on The Rest Is Politics. He calls it "a real imminent threat."
He sees three options for Britain. Accept being a US vassal, and then whenever Washington says jump, you jump, even if it asks you to give the Falklands to Argentina.
Or build UK AI. The price is around £500 billion, paid for with cuts to welfare, education and transport.
