About the book
The New Empire of AI: The Future of Global Inequality published in November 2024 takes a look at the ways in which AI takes hold across the planet and wealthy nations seek to position themselves as global leaders of this new technology, while the gap is widening between those who benefit from it and those who are subjugated by it.
As Rachel Adams shows in this hard-hitting book, growing inequality is the single biggest threat to the transformative potential of AI. Not only is AI built on an unequal global system of power, it stands poised to entrench existing inequities, further consolidating a new age of empire.
About the author
Rachel Adams is the Founder and Executive Director of the African Observatory on Responsible AI. She sits on the UNESCO Expert Committee for the implementation of the UNESCO Recommendation on the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence, the AI Safety and Ethics Committee of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and the Multistakeholder Expert Group of the Global Partnership on AI. She is also an Associate Fellow at the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence at the University of Cambridge and at the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Cape Town.