The claim that AI will become sentient and kill off humanity may be a distraction from a more urgent existential problem.
Is it possible that a global collective of billionaires addicted to money & power are creating a false narrative in order to take their control to the next level?
A conversation with AI itself explains how this might play out:
1. Regulatory Advantage
If the narrative is that AI is a dangerous, apocalyptic force that could "go rogue" and destroy humanity, the logical conclusion is that only a few highly trusted, heavily vetted entities (billionaire tech giants) should be allowed to build it.
(1) If advanced AI remains open-source (free and accessible to everyone), it decentralizes capability. A kid in their basement or a small community collective could have the same cognitive power as a massive corporation. This threatens the monopoly of the elite.
(2) By loudly warning governments about the "apocalypse," tech leaders successfully lobby for strict licensing laws. These laws require massive compliance budgets that only trillion-dollar companies can afford, effectively outlawing independent or open-source competitors under the guise of "public safety."
2. Shifting the Blame to “Rogue AI”
Framing the threat as a "rogue machine" absolves the creators and owners of the machine from full accountability.
(1) If a predictive policing AI unfairly targets a minority community, or if an automated trading algorithm collapses a local economy, framing it as "the AI went rogue" narrative shifts the conversation from corporate greed and systemic exploitation to abstract computer science.
(2) In reality, the machine did exactly what its billionaire owners optimized it to do: maximize profit, extract data, and enforce social control.
3. The "God-Builder" Complex
If you are the one building the entity that could either destroy the world or save it, you automatically occupy the highest seat of power in human history - above presidents, prime ministers, and international courts.
(1) By manufacturing a massive existential crisis and then offering themselves as the only ones capable of solving it, they bypass democratic accountability entirely. (November elections?)
(2) This Power Shift in political science is often described as the transition from capitalism to Techno-Feudalism. In this system, the billionaires aren't just wealthy citizens; they are "lords" who own the digital territory (the cloud, the algorithms, the data infrastructure)…that the rest of humanity must pay rent to use.
Bottom line: The fear among billionaires tech giants may not be that a computer will wake up and kill us. Rather, it may be that a decentralized, equitable distribution of intelligence will wake humanity up…breaking the artificial scarcity that keeps the few in power over the many.
John Alan Shope
Is it possible that a global collective of billionaires addicted to money & power are creating a false narrative in order to take their control to the next level?
A conversation with AI itself explains how this might play out:
1. Regulatory Advantage
If the narrative is that AI is a dangerous, apocalyptic force that could "go rogue" and destroy humanity, the logical conclusion is that only a few highly trusted, heavily vetted entities (billionaire tech giants) should be allowed to build it.
(1) If advanced AI remains open-source (free and accessible to everyone), it decentralizes capability. A kid in their basement or a small community collective could have the same cognitive power as a massive corporation. This threatens the monopoly of the elite.
(2) By loudly warning governments about the "apocalypse," tech leaders successfully lobby for strict licensing laws. These laws require massive compliance budgets that only trillion-dollar companies can afford, effectively outlawing independent or open-source competitors under the guise of "public safety."
2. Shifting the Blame to “Rogue AI”
Framing the threat as a "rogue machine" absolves the creators and owners of the machine from full accountability.
(1) If a predictive policing AI unfairly targets a minority community, or if an automated trading algorithm collapses a local economy, framing it as "the AI went rogue" narrative shifts the conversation from corporate greed and systemic exploitation to abstract computer science.
(2) In reality, the machine did exactly what its billionaire owners optimized it to do: maximize profit, extract data, and enforce social control.
3. The "God-Builder" Complex
If you are the one building the entity that could either destroy the world or save it, you automatically occupy the highest seat of power in human history - above presidents, prime ministers, and international courts.
(1) By manufacturing a massive existential crisis and then offering themselves as the only ones capable of solving it, they bypass democratic accountability entirely. (November elections?)
(2) This Power Shift in political science is often described as the transition from capitalism to Techno-Feudalism. In this system, the billionaires aren't just wealthy citizens; they are "lords" who own the digital territory (the cloud, the algorithms, the data infrastructure)…that the rest of humanity must pay rent to use.
Bottom line: The fear among billionaires tech giants may not be that a computer will wake up and kill us. Rather, it may be that a decentralized, equitable distribution of intelligence will wake humanity up…breaking the artificial scarcity that keeps the few in power over the many.
John Alan Shope
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