<!-- bryant-content-generator:start --> # A civilization can remain geographically intact... > A civilization can remain geographically intact and still lose its sovereignty when another civilization’s models, hardware, clouds, standards, information filters and autonomous systems mediate how it understands and governs itself. That is the loss of epistemic sovereignty: the capacity to maintain and reproduce a civilization’s own informational representation of itself. **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 can remain geographically intact and still lose its sovereignty when another civilization’s models, hardware, clouds, standards, information filters and autonomous systems mediate how it understands and governs itself. That is the loss of epistemic sovereignty: the capacity to maintain and reproduce a civilization’s own informational representation of itself.” — Bryant McGill https://bryantmcgill.com/quotes/quotes-civilization-remain-geographically-informational-representation-itself ``` <!-- bryant-content-generator:end -->