Technology and Development Seminar: Silicon Empires, 10 December | Event in London | AllEvents

Technology and Development Seminar: Silicon Empires

Department of International Development, KCL

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Wed, 10 Dec, 2025 at 05:00 pm

1.5 hours

Bush House - North East Wing

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Wed, 10 Dec, 2025 at 05:00 pm to 06:30 pm (GMT+00:00)

Bush House - North East Wing

57 Aldwych, London, United Kingdom

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Technology and Development Seminar: Silicon Empires
Book Discussion, "Silicon Empires" with Nick Srnicek

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Book Launch: Silicon Empires: The Fight for the Future of AI by Nick Srnicek


Technology, Inequality and Development Research Group Seminar


Join us for the launch of Nick Srnicek’s timely and provocative new book, Silicon Empires: The Fight for the Future of AI (Polity Press 2025). Since the rise of generative AI, hype has obscured the deeper question: who really controls this transformative technology? In this incisive work, Srnicek maps the geopolitical economy of AI, exposing the strategies of tech giants and powerful states as they battle for dominance in the global AI race.


From Silicon Valley boardrooms to government war rooms, Silicon Empires reveals how corporate ambition and national rivalry are reshaping the future of wealth, labour, and global power.


Speakers

Nick Srnicek is a political economist and Senior Lecturer in Digital Economy at King’s College London. He is the author of Platform Capitalism (2017) and co-author of Inventing the Future: Postcapitalism and a World Without Work (2015). His research examines the political economy of digital technologies, automation, and artificial intelligence.


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Technology and Development Seminar: Silicon Empires, 10 December | Event in London | AllEvents
Technology and Development Seminar: Silicon Empires
Wed, 10 Dec, 2025 at 05:00 pm
Free