<!-- bryant-content-generator:start --> # A civilization that dominates sufficiently capable... > A civilization that dominates sufficiently capable AI need not occupy another country to achieve the strategic effects of conquest; it can dominate the information environment, technological standards, scientific tempo, industrial productivity, cyber domain, financial infrastructure and military decision cycle within which the other society must operate. **Source:** [[articles/The Gigawatt Is the New Measure of War|The Gigawatt Is the New Measure of War: AI, Demography, and the Civilizational Contest Between America and China]] ## Share on Social Media ``` “A civilization that dominates sufficiently capable AI need not occupy another country to achieve the strategic effects of conquest; it can dominate the information environment, technological standards, scientific tempo, industrial productivity, cyber domain, financial infrastructure and military decision cycle within which the other society must operate.” — Bryant McGill https://bryantmcgill.com/quotes/quotes-civilization-dominates-sufficiently-society-must-operate ``` <!-- bryant-content-generator:end -->