We’ve already witnessed the devastating consequences of leaving Big Tech companies to regulate themselves – democracies shaken by industrial scale disinformation; societies divided by algorithmically driven hate; our privacy violated and our children harmed.
But this technology can only exist because we do. It depends on the sum of all of humanity’s knowledge and creativity. Therefore AI belongs to all of us - for all of humanity - not just tech billionaires like OpenAI’s Sam Altman and Palantir’s Alex Karp.
And this particular class of billionaire is lodging itself in the halls of power, with political access at terrifying levels. There’s hardly an election Musk isn’t trying to interfere in, and billionaires have put up $100 million to help anti-regulation candidates win in the US mid-terms.
Tech companies seem unbothered by the damage they might do. The world has become the laboratory for their untested technology and billions of us are their subjects. Big Tech is fighting hard to resist regulation – throwing millions at a lobbying effort to crush the opposition, while they release new products every month.
But we can unite behind our own vision - a manifesto for a pro-human AI future - and we can take it to governments, courts, and boardrooms to make sure tech is working for the people…not against them.
