THE DARK CONSPIRACY SIDE

Now let's separate real concerns from internet conspiracy.

There are legitimate questions around:

AI concentration

A relatively small number of companies control enormous amounts of:

compute models cloud infrastructure data distribution

That's worth watching.

Surveillance

AI makes analysing enormous amounts of information dramatically easier.

That's a real concern.

Employment

AI may not simply eliminate jobs.

It may eliminate tasks, restructure jobs and reduce the number of people needed for certain workflows.

Information control

AI increasingly sits between people and information.

That means whoever controls:

models + search + recommendation + distribution

can potentially influence what information people encounter.

Autonomous systems

The biggest long-term concern may not be "AI becomes evil."

It may be:

Humans give increasingly powerful systems authority they don't fully understand.

That's considerably more realistic than most movie-style conspiracies.