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SUMMARY:Who rules the AI age? Big Tech\, the US and Chinese states and the
  space left for digital sovereignty - Dr Cecilia Rikap (University College
  London)
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20250311T173000Z
DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20250311T183000Z
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DESCRIPTION:How are artificial intelligence and the cloud shaping relation
 ships among leading corporations and between these corporations and states
 ? By exploring the interplay between the world’s corporate and political
  (super)powers\, this presentation addresses the question: Who rules globa
 l capitalism\, and why are digital technologies so crucial for governance 
 and control?\n\nIn short\, Big Tech is not just another instance of corpor
 ate power concentration. Digital technologies have become essential for ex
 ercising corporate power beyond the tech sector. Leaders across diverse in
 dustries have grown increasingly dependent on these technologies. Companie
 s such as Disney\, L’Oréal\, McDonald’s\, Nestlé\, Nike\, PepsiCo\, 
 Pfizer\, Siemens\, Toyota\, Visa and Walmart rely on data and AI running o
 n Big Tech clouds for scientific research\, branding\, workers’ manageme
 nt and value chain planning —from suppliers to demand—. The resulting\
 , highly unequal alliances among the world’s corporate giants further re
 inforce their dominance. At the same time\, states across the globe are be
 coming similarly dependent as they migrate to the cloud and adopt Big Tech
  AI. Among them\, only the United States and China operate on a more level
  playing field.\n\nDr. Cecilia Rikap is an Associate Professor in Economic
 s and the Head of Research at the Institute for Innovation and Public Purp
 ose of the University College London (UCL). Until joining UCL\, she was a 
 Senior Lecturer in International Political Economy (IPE) at City\, Univers
 ity of London and programme director of the BSc. in IPE at the same univer
 sity. She is a tenure researcher of the CONICET\, Argentina’s national r
 esearch council\, and associate researcher at COSTECH lab\, Université de
  Technologie de Compiègne.\n\nRikap is the author of the award-winning bo
 ok Capitalism\, Power and Innovation: Intellectual Monopoly Capitalism Unc
 overed and co-author of the book The Digital Innovation Race in which Rika
 p and her co-author anticipate the politics and economics of AI that we ar
 e witnessing today.\n\nCecilia’s research is rooted in the international
  political economy of science and technology and the economics of innovati
 on. She studies the rising concentration of intangible assets leading to t
 he emergence of intellectual monopolies among others from digital and phar
 ma industries. Her research highlights the unequal distribution of intelle
 ctual (including data) rents and the effects of intellectual monopolizatio
 n on the knowledge commons\, development and rising geopolitical tensions.
  Her most recent work focuses on artificial intelligence and the cloud\, B
 ig Tech companies’ dominance of these technologies\, their interplay wit
 h other multinational corporations and the effects of Big Tech’s extende
 d intellectual monopolization on digital sovereignty. Rikap has experience
  advising policymakers in Argentina\, Brazil\, France\, the United Kingdom
  and the United States as well as dozens of civil society organizations on
  these matters.\nSpeakers:\nDr Cecilia Rikap (University College London)
LOCATION:1 St Giles' (Seminar Room\, 1 St Giles\, Oxford\, OX1 3JS or via 
 Zoom)\, 1 St Giles' OX1 3JS
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