With the digital phenomenon restructuring most social sectors, it is little surprise that global trade negotiations are now eyeing the data economy in an attempt to pre-emptively colonise it. Training data for AI models is freely collected or mined from developing countries, and converted into refined AI capability in developed countries. This capability begins to control different sectors and extract monopoly rents. A large foreign company providing a mapping service, for instance, is not a network of satellites and vehicles; it is refined intelligence about geography, infrastructure, personal movement patterns and so on.

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