The following is a guest post by John deVadoss, the co-founder at InterWork Alliance.
The pundits expound on Artificial General Intelligence, the so-called AI Singularity, existential threats to humanity from AI, and more.
A more pressing and urgent hazard that is not being debated is the centralized AI monopoly (“Big AI”) and its implications to sovereignty, to agency and to the social contract.
Wearing down of Sovereignty
If AI ends up as yet another Big Tech oligarchy, a la the cloud platforms, then it will mark the beginning of the end of sovereignty for nation states around the world.
Cloud platforms were infrastructure: static, inert and fungible plumbing. The risk there was primarily that of being “de-platformed” and the need to find alternative providers; and, there were usually backup services around if one were willing to pay the price.
With Big AI, however, states face a de facto abdication to the Big AI “models” – culturally, linguistically, from a social more
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