Alumnus Brian Wong releases new book on AI
DPIR alumnus Brian Wong has co-authored a new book with Boris Babic (University of Hong Kong) articulating a new ethical framework in interpreting where AI meets geopolitics.
In The Geopolitics of Artificial Intelligence, published by Cambridge University Press, Brian – who read his MA in PPE, MPhil in Political Theory, and a DPhil in Politics, all at DPIR and is a Rhodes Scholar (Hong Kong SAR, 2020) - analyses the risks, opportunities and ethics shaping our AI-powered world.
He argues that rather than viewing global AI as a two-player race, AI is best understood as a stag hunt, where the fruits of cooperation between two players, but also broader international coordination, can outweigh the fruits of each power’s trying to win what they construe as a zero-sum race. In this context, addressing questions of responsibility for AI-enabled structural injustices, opportunity and relational egalitarianism, and the interests and autonomy of individual citizens is quintessential for any sound AI governance framework.
Brian, who is now an HKU-100 Assistant Professor and Director of the Hong Kong Global AI Governance Hub at the University of Hong Kong, said: “I am deeply grateful to my eight years with DPIR and Oxford, which equipped me with the interdisciplinary mindset and constant curiosity about the world, to navigate questions as exciting and enigmatic as the geopolitics of AI. This book is but the beginning of a much longer journey.”
Brian has published six books in total – including Reparative Justice in Authoritarian States and Moral Debt, which both came out last year. He is working on a volume examining Sino-Indian relations, alongside two ongoing projects concerning pluralising political legitimacy and theorising about structural injustice vis-a-vis neurotechnology.
