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

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Post by PhilipDaineko » Sat, Jun 27, 2026, 8:48 PM UTC

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

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

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Post by bigyabai » Sat, Jun 27, 2026, 8:50 PM UTC

> 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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Post by PhilipDaineko » Sat, Jun 27, 2026, 9:08 PM UTC

bigyabai wrote: post #2

> 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...

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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Post by qsxfthnkp2322 » Sat, Jun 27, 2026, 10:22 PM UTC

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.

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

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Post by halperter » Sat, Jun 27, 2026, 10:42 PM UTC

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.

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Post by NonHyloMorph » Sat, Jun 27, 2026, 10:44 PM UTC

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

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Post by lemonademan » Sat, Jun 27, 2026, 10:48 PM UTC

More often than not, money is never truly lost; it is just passed from one person's hand to another. I believe that with the help of the big tech companies, governments have found faster and better ways to move money from the hands of the many with little into the hands of the few with a lot. The layoffs are an example of this as coders, assitance and other white-collar workers are replaced by AI for low prices so as to save money, hence increasing the revenue for the few at the top.

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Post by sph » Sat, Jun 27, 2026, 11:48 PM UTC

halperter wrote: post #5

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 tightr…

Why do we need constant innovation?

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Post by [deleted] » Sat, Jun 27, 2026, 11:53 PM UTC

sph wrote: post #8

halperter wrote: post #5

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 tightr…

Why do we need constant innovation?

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Post by avaer » Sat, Jun 27, 2026, 11:56 PM UTC

> Not AI enslaving humanity.

Humanity enslaving AI. As well as the rest of humanity.

There is precedent that this kind of thing tends to be rejected when it boils over, but it's usually not pretty.

Which is why tech CEOs are often preppers. They could, you know, just not do this, but shareholders won't allow it, because nobody wants to lose their net worth to do the right thing. It's easier to blame others and build bomb shelters.