Everyone feared AI taking over; the real danger is AI serving just the few

Everyone feared AI would enslave humanity; but it looks like the real fight is stopping governments and Big Tech from enslaving AI for the benefit of the few.

Amid the newly announced "regulation" of OpenAI's frontier models, I believe the future majority feared the most - sort of AI becoming a superpower and enslaving people - may be arriving in the opposite form.

Not AI enslaving humanity.

But AI being captured, controlled, and used by governments and Big Tech for the benefit of the few.

So, surprisingly, the real AI conflict may not be about humans fighting to stop AI from becoming free. It may be about humans fighting to free AI - to make intelligence available for everyone, not only for governments, Big Tech, and the approved few

9 points | by PhilipDaineko 1 hour ago

4 comments

  • NonHyloMorph 3 minutes ago
    Check out Louis Chude Sokeis sound of culture - diaspora and blackb technopoetics" for the history and intertwinedness of the disoureses of race and machine and slavery.

    Also I wonder how you suggestion of AI owned by everybody, as opposition to AI enslavedd by the few checks out under further scrutiny from the standpoint of logic in general and the aforementioned context specifically

  • halperter 5 minutes ago
    Innovation has pretty much always heightened the wealth disparity between the wealthy and the poor. A classical example would be the Industrial Revolution and America's guilded age, and another could be the circular investments between modern AI corpos (the whole nVIDIA, Microsoft, and OpenAI funding loop), which is probably a bad thing in the long run (systemic violence and class revolt). We have to walk this tightrope between the need for constant innovation and justice.
  • qsxfthnkp2322 25 minutes ago
    As a tech small business owner this is unfair that I can't be as smart by using the same level of intelligence as the top companies in the usa.

    This policy just keeps the powerful in power.

    And it's crazy because I already lost my job due to AI.

  • bigyabai 1 hour ago
    > But AI being captured, controlled, and used by governments and Big Tech for the benefit of the few.

    If we're being perfectly candid, this was already happening before LLMs were a mass-market technology: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sentient_(intelligence_analysi...

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    • PhilipDaineko 1 hour ago
      I get your point.

      But, as far as I understand, Sentient was state AI built for the state. LLMs were built from everyone's data, given to everyone, and now may be locked away for the few