A recent Chatham House paper on the impact of artificial intelligence on international relations raises the prospect of a "power gap" fuelled by the concentration of AI investment and expertise in the US and China. Looking beyond the strategic rivalry between those technological superpowers, states across the world will seek to deploy emerging technologies, especially AI, because these systems are cheaper and more accessible than the traditional military, financial and economic tools of statecraft. The impacts of emerging technologies are uneven and unpredictable, depending on the specific uses. China and the Western countries writing the programs stand to benefit most from systems that are attuned to anticipate their languages, goals and needs. Consumers in India and other developing countries already complain that their AI assistants are frustrating to use and less helpful than the English-speaking versions.