Exactly. I've been disseminating a similar message for years.
The concentration of power in AI and the desire for control is by far the biggest danger of AI. It could lead to a few private companies and/or countries being in control of access to information, access to knowledge, and access to the tools of economic expansion.
It's a kind of medieval obscurantism akin to the Ottoman empire banning the use of the printing press for 200 years, in part to keep control of the dogma, but also to protect the corporation of the calligraphers and scribes.
Relevant historical bits about the Internet:
1. It took a deliberate decision by Al Gore and Bill Clinton to open up access of what was then ARPAnet to commercial entities and to the public, against the desires of the entrenched telecom industry. During a public roundtable about the "information superhighway" in 1993, the CEO of AT&T told Gore and Clinton "leave it to us". Gore said no.
2. In the late 1980s, setting up an Internet presence required buying proprietary hardware with proprietary OS and software stack from Sun Microsystems, HP, IBM, or Dell. By the 2000s, all of this was wiped out by commodity hardware, Linux, Apache, and an entirely free/open software stack. This migration to open platforms was the result of market forces.
Infrastructure wants to be open.
Foundation models are becoming an infrastructure and will inevitably become commoditized.
Long term, the money is in the application layer, which is what I, Arthur Mensch, Alex Karp, and others have been saying.
Honestly this topic may radicalize me into publishing onchain techniques to evade bs.
KYC is one of the most useless types of data in crypto cases.
Only benefits threat actors when a company is breached and leadership is never held legally accountable for user thefts.
Why does the government push people to pay a third worlder $100 on the black market for access to basic privacy?
this is much, much, much worse than it sounds
there's an argument for social media being bad for children
but this should be up to the parents to modulate, not bureaucrats who think they own you
to enforce this, you have to enforce collecting personal information of i) children (which is insane) but also ii) literally everyone since you cant distinguish age beforehand
which means mandatory state surveillance for absolutely everyone
now combine that with new AI cybersecurity and unstructured data capabilities and you get both: i) more draconian and complicated controls and profiling by the state for a LIFETIME
and ii) your personal information almost certainly being hacked and leaked to thousands of criminals. that is children's sensitive information getting in the hands of bad guys at internet scale
privacy in crypto is not enough, but if done right, it is crucial, as it can spearhead advancing tech like FHE and ZK while also helping fund new privacy projects in all sectors
private capital and money is upstream of the resistance everyone will need
JUST IN: UK Government clarifies adults will still be able to use social media by verifying their identities with digital IDs, facial recognition, passports and credit cards.
Fable isn't the first.
In 1999 the department of defense blocked exports of the PowerMac G4 for crossing the 1 gigaflop threshold.
Steve Jobs turned it into an ad.