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Comment posted by Wantoknow<\/p>\n
The whole idea that AI can be made safe by monopolizing a few players is the height of nonsense.\u00a0 A few players with extremely capable AI are themselves as dangerous as the AI themselves and more so because they have the means for monopolizing power which have been developed over thousands of years of human scheming.<\/p>\n
AI is the gunpowder revolution of the 21st century and the big players not only make the guns and powder but want to assure they keep it for themselves.\u00a0 Restriction of product access is the essence of monopoly whether that be a monopoly of political power or commercial power.\u00a0 In this day and age the two are hopelessly intertwined.<\/p>\n
These companies must be subject to thorough going competition because competition is to the benefit of the public and never the companies.\u00a0 No businessman worth his salt will ever be for competition except as a pretense.<\/p>\n
Competition is a noose around a company’s neck. It restrains the growth of a company by turning that growth into new companies instead of boosting the growth of the old one.\u00a0 This new competition offers new products, obsoletes old ones and restricts profit growth.\u00a0 It threatens existence itself.\u00a0 The public does not care who they buy from but the companies very much care that the public buys from them.<\/p>\n
For Trump it is the same.\u00a0 The country that wins the AI race, wins everything.\u00a0 He is as much for monopoly as any of these companies.\u00a0 He wants a US monopoly and conceives it as a race to be won. His ambition is to cut out China completely from AI development.<\/p>\n
For the AI companies the problem is that China has no incentive to agree to share the market with the US and create a world monopoly given Trump’s attitude.\u00a0 Still, one begins somewhere and cornering the US market for AI is a worthy start.<\/p>\n
The great joke on the public is that there is no defense from AI tyranny but competition.\u00a0 The internet will be policed by AI.\u00a0 Can people crawl down wires and squeeze through transistors looking for miscreants?\u00a0 Of course not.\u00a0 But giving the AI police over to a transcendent monopoly, government-private cartel,\u00a0is to give over the internet to them too and without recourse.<\/p>\n
The world they want you to fear is the world they want to build.\u00a0 It is their AI on their leash that will terrorize the public suitably clothed in a benign appearing mask.\u00a0 Don’t let it happen.\u00a0 Centralization is the royal road to power and always has been. Don’t let them take it.<\/p>\n
Here is a prediction.\u00a0 In 10 years they will all be gone without a monopoly.\u00a0 The have misspent on data centers and other technology that will be superseded.\u00a0 Their financial commitments will destroy them as the technology moves beyond them.\u00a0 Open source is the clear wave of the future and it is a noose about their necks.\u00a0 Let them be squeezed for their presumption and temerity and your freedom.<\/p>\n