Hi, I'm Ravi Agruwal, Foreign Policy's editor-in-chief. This is FP Live.

Welcome to the show. All of a sudden, everyone is talking about artificial intelligence. It's gone

from being a relatively niche area a year ago to a topic that the broader public

seems obsessed with. Some of this new interest, to be fair, is because of ChatGPT. When it launched

late last year, I think it connected with non-AI experts because it started doing well at very

human tasks, research, school tests, the bar exam,

and it spurred larger public debate about AI's role in society, its impact on jobs,

the economy, and so much else.

But the area that's gotten less public attention is how AI can impact geopolitics. And that's the area our summer

print issue takes on. It's called The Scramble for AI. And it has a great set of essays

exploring how AI has sparked a new arms race of sorts and how it's already having a remarkable

impact on warfare and deterrence.

You can read more in the links on this page.

The lead essay in the package is by Paul Schare, who compares the AI race today to the nuclear race a generation ago.

Like then, this race will create a world of haves and have-nots.

Much of the scramble for AI is around controlling access to the computing hardware needed to train powerful AI models. And that

leads to all kinds of questions about alliances, export controls, sanctions, regulation. You really must read the essay. In addition to our cover

essay, Paul is the author of Four Battlegrounds, Power in the Age of Artificial Intelligence.

He spent time at the Pentagon, where he worked on emerging weapons technologies, and he's

currently the Director of Studies at the Center for a New American Security.

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