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

7•PhilipDaineko•1h ago
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

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bigyabai•1h 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...

PhilipDaineko•1h 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

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