Executive Summary
Artificial intelligence (AI) is often marketed as a technology that reduces labour: chatbots replace customer‑service agents, machine‑learning models sort résumés and computer vision powers driverless cars. However, every breakthrough
AI tutors, grading algorithms and safeguarding tools are reshaping classrooms into an invisible lab. The piece shows how data‑driven education risks bias and surveillance, and offers a Children’s Bill of Rights to put students’ wellbeing first while arguing for rights‑based governance.
In this board-level study, we explore why smaller, task-specific AI models often outperform massive frontier models. The piece examines how accuracy, latency, cost and risk interact, and provides decision frameworks and metrics for executives. Restraint brings cost, speed and reliability advantages.
Power no longer flows through oil pipelines but through silicon. A few nations and models now shape the world’s future. Compute is the new oil, evaluation the new diplomacy, and cultural sovereignty the next frontier of global power.
A handful of chips, fabs, and models now define the balance of global power. From export controls to cultural monocultures, compute chokepoints are the new oil reserves — fragile, finite, and decisive in shaping sovereignty for decades to come.
