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

A commentator argues that the real danger of AI is not it enslaving humanity, but rather governments and Big Tech capturing and controlling AI for the benefit of the few, urging a fight to free AI for everyone.

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 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48701615 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48701615 Points: 2 Comments: 1