eprintid: 10197095
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creators_name: Rikap, Cecilia
title: The US National Security State and Big Tech: frenemy relations and innovation planning in turbulent times
ispublished: pub
divisions: UCL
divisions: B04
divisions: C04
divisions: DF7
keywords: US National Security State; Big Tech; Innovation planning; Artificial intelligence; Corporate–state diplomacy; O21; O33; O34; O38
note: This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions.
abstract: I analyze the relation between what Weiss (2014) dubbed the United States National Security State (US NSS) and US Big Tech focusing on artificial intelligence (AI). I argue that the US NSS was an innovation planner until the 1990s and advance the hypothesis that, amid that vacuum, this millennium has seen the emergence of AI planning by US Big Tech. This has resulted in tensions with the US NSS given the centrality of AI in the military–industrial complex and ultimately for buttressing American primacy, which has always been the US NSS’s main goal. Amid today’s global turbulence, this tension has leaned towards a strategic yet asymmetric alliance that I define as a frenemy relation. Beyond the tit-for-tat between the US NSS and Big Tech companies, their experiences as innovation planners open space for prefiguring an alternative, a democratic way of planning innovation for the common good.
date: 2024-08
date_type: published
publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
official_url: https://doi.org/10.4337/roke.2024.03.06
oa_status: green
full_text_type: other
language: eng
primo: open
primo_central: open_green
verified: verified_manual
elements_id: 2310434
doi: 10.4337/roke.2024.03.06
lyricists_name: Rikap, Cecilia
lyricists_id: CRIKA02
actors_name: Rikap, Cecilia
actors_name: Zahnhausen-Stuber, Petra
actors_id: CRIKA02
actors_id: PMZAH20
actors_role: owner
actors_role: impersonator
full_text_status: public
publication: Review of Keynesian Economics
volume: 12
number: 3
pagerange: 348-364
issn: 2049-5323
citation:        Rikap, Cecilia;      (2024)    The US National Security State and Big Tech: frenemy relations and innovation planning in turbulent times.                   Review of Keynesian Economics , 12  (3)   pp. 348-364.    10.4337/roke.2024.03.06 <https://doi.org/10.4337/roke.2024.03.06>.       Green open access   
 
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