This paper rightly concludes, "there is too much focus on profit and power and almost none on safety." President Dwight Eisenhower warned us in his farewell speech to be ever watchful for a takeover by the military-industrial complex AND a scientific-technological elite. They have merged together into a behemoth that is taking us captive.
Andreessen pumps accelerationism and wants to deregulate AI on all levels, and he is certain that "AI will serve as the 'control layer' for all aspects of society, from education and healthcare to transportation and law." To make sure that this happens on schedule, he makes China out to be our enemy to beat in the race. But China is already a Technocracy! How thick is his propaganda?
Like Google, Zuckerberg has tons of cash flow from advertising revenue to finance AI development and data centers. Competitors like OpenAI and Anthropic rely on outside investors. Still, Zuckerberg has fallen behind and is racing to catch up. The prize of AGI will go to the winner, leaving hundreds of billions of dollars in investments in jeopardy for the losers. This was a race of their own making, but the winner takes all.
You know that the squeeze is coming when Microsoft announced last month that it plans to lay off 6,000 employees, or 3 percent of its workforce, across the board. This is indicative of a) reformation/restructuring of workflows and b) consolidation of job functions. This is seen as Amazon lays off 14,000 mid-level managerial positions by early 2026. Salesforce will not hire any new engineers in 2025 because the remaining programmers are more productive with AI. You get the idea...
Tony Blair is a former member of the Trilateral Commission, the organization that brought Technocracy into the modern world. Blair talks like a Technocrat, and thinks like a Technocrat: ergo, he is a Technocrat. On the heels of China creating an AI hospital, Blair thinks it's a great idea for Britain. Well, of course...
AI bots promise social connection in the same way that social media did, but both are delivering the polar opposite: more loneliness, more dysfunction, and more pain. Technocrats don't understand that humans need humans, not machines, to cradle real relationships; Mark Zuckerberg is playing the deceiver to suggest otherwise. Don't let your kids have AI "friends", period.
Arch-Technocrat Peter Thiel's new Palantir contracts with the Federal government likely exceed $1 trillion just since the inauguration - not bad for helping Trump get elected in the first place. Vice President J.D. Vance is also tied to Thiel as a protégé who got his start in politics with Thiel's funding. In any language, this is called "cashing in", "pay-back," or "ka-ching ka-ching". This is the surveillance state at its worst, and it is being ushered in by a republican president.
Technocrats have apparently snuck into Congress and put a clause in the Budget bill to ban states from regulating AI for the next ten years. This is Trump's "Big Beautiful Bill." I have been warning for years that we should kick all technocrats out of policy-making positions. They can't get away with this, and you should demand that your Congressman vote this into oblivion. And read the bill from top to bottom before the final vote.
I recently interviewed the professional version of ChatGPT. My intent was to put a crosshair on the functional uses for AI, but I got a totally new and profound view. More on that in a minute. The first thing on the list was Cognitive Augmentation, which covers things like research, ideation, writing, etc. There are no moving parts so far. However, the list went on with fluid uses like surveillance, mechanical and procedural automation, and narrative control.
"If AI systems were ever able to suffer, would we be obligated to care?" Should speech from AI chatbots be protected under the First Amendment as Free Speech? Do AIs deserve moral rights? You can see where this is headed. Technocrats have painted themselves - and society - into a corner. Get ready for the insanity to follow.