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How to Save the Internet

The Threat to Global Connection in the Age of AI and Political Conflict

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How to Save the Internet

By: Nick Clegg
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The global, open internet is fragmenting. How To Save the Internet outlines the global cooperation needed to reform Big Tech and preserve the internet as we know it.

As democracies aim to control Big Tech, Silicon Valley adopts an America-first agenda, and authoritarian regimes like China and Russia isolate their populations from the internet, the most powerful tool for bringing us together risks being dismantled.

Nick Clegg, Meta’s former President of Global Affairs, reveals where Big Tech has faltered, how Silicon Valley’s insularity has led to mistakes, and the necessary radical reforms for global platforms to ensure their future.

While new regulations are crucial, imposing national borders on the internet would undermine its capacity for sharing knowledge, collaboration, education, trade, research, and ultimately, for the empowerment and improvement of billions of lives.

Radical, reasonable, deeply felt and disarmingly honest, this is the book we need to save the internet.

'A vital read for anyone building or regulating the next era of technology' REID HOFFMAN, LinkedIn Co-Founder

'A gripping and timely book. Nick Clegg writes with clarity, authority and urgency' PETER FRANKOPAN

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A gripping and timely book. Nick Clegg writes with clarity, authority and urgency about how we have arrived at a digital crossroads - and about what is at stake with the choices that do not lie ahead but need to be made now (Peter Frankopan, author of The Silk Roads)
As generative AI reshapes everything from communication to geopolitics, we face a pivotal question: will open, democratic values shape the future – or will fragmentation and authoritarian models win? Nick Clegg makes a compelling case for global cooperation, responsible governance and shared infrastructure to ensure AI remains a force for freedom (Reid Hoffman, co-founder of LinkedIn and founding investor in OpenAI)
The global internet – once a force for openness – is at risk of fracturing under the weight of the contest between open versus closed perspectives on the world. As Nick Clegg powerfully sets out, the technology revolution is the defining political challenge of our time and, as AI becomes more powerful, it is the leadership and values of democratic nations that must set the course (Tony Blair, former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom)
Nick Clegg issues a dire warning to democracies to resist the temptation to turn the internet into a 'splinter net' ... Clegg’s call for 'radical transparency' from Big Tech is all the more urgent as artificial intelligence threatens to upend and transform the world order (Nate Persily, Professor of Law, Stanford Law School)
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