The loudest voices shaping the AI conversation right now belong to the people with the most to gain from it: government officials and tech demons like Sam Altman. Neither group has your best interests at heart.

Yes, AI will eliminate certain jobs, that's real, but here's what gets buried in the panic: every major technological shift in history, from the printing press to the internet, destroyed old roles and created entirely new ones we couldn't have imagined beforehand. The jobs question, while valid, is ultimately the wrong thing to be losing sleep over.

The more urgent question is this: who controls the technology?

Left in the hands of Silicon Valley's oligarchs; Altman, Musk, Amodei and their ilk, the destination is predictable. These are people building toward a world where AI becomes the backbone of mass surveillance, behavioural control, and concentrated power. We're already seeing the early architecture of it and now, with governments pushing to nationalise AI infrastructure, the picture darkens further. State-controlled AI isn't a safeguard, but an even bigger nightmare waiting to unfold.

The problem is we're being fed a narrative of inevitability as if the AI is just here and there is nothing you can do about it; accept the status quo as is or buzz off. No. Nothing is inevitable, not yet anyway and with all balls in the air; it's very important to have models that aren't under the control of the SV tech demons. The ultimate goal being it's centralisation in the hands of the state and its partners like they did with fiat money. It isn't far fetched to imagine the Dept of Energy being the AAI equivalent of the Federal Reserve and the current giants operating like banks where they are licensed to serve the Epstein class first and themselves second.

A future built by Altman and his cabal, will require you to look into the orb before you leave your house let alone use ChatGPT. I don't think that's the future you want.