Beyond the Thucydides Trap The Empowerment-Subversion Effect of Artificial Intelligence and the New Paradigm of Great Power Competition
Artificial intelligence (AI), as a technology with dual effects of empowerment and disruption, is reshaping the paradigm of great-power competition and posing a challenge to the theoretical hypothesis of the “Thucydides Trap.” On the empowerment level, AI reinforces traditional power-political logic by enhancing military, economic, and strategic governance capabilities, thereby intensifying structural power competition among major powers in terms of technological resources, institutional rules,
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