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0 pointsdandanua29d ago0 comments

> Everyone would have equal access to the ultimate means of production.

You are right that AI can be a fully democratized commodity. The problem is that the current wealth inequality is not the result of AI. Musk became a trillion seeking oligarch not because of AI. It is because the entire financial system is designed to extract wealth from everyone and concentrate at the top. Democratic AI is not in their interest. There will be violence, but not because AI is supposedly a catalyst of inequality. It will be violence from the rich towards the poor, because democratic AI is not acceptable for them.

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MontyCarloHall29d ago

>It will be violence from the rich towards the poor, because democratic AI is not acceptable for them.

Unless the rich somehow manage to completely stifle the progress of consumer-level computing advancement (all chip manufacturers would just collude to quit selling to consumers?) and exert an iron-fisted control over the dissemination of software (when has this ever worked?), I'm not sure how they could control the democratization of AI.

HWR_1429d ago

> all chip manufacturers would just collude to quit selling to consumers?

Well, someone with money could go buy 100% of RAM production for the next 3 years.

coffeebeqn28d ago

All the chip manufacturers? Nvidia makes most of what’s running the current AI at least and they do seem to be pivoting away from the consumer market

ryandrake29d ago

> It will be violence from the rich towards the poor, because democratic AI is not acceptable for them.

There's been ongoing class warfare happening for centuries, but only the rich side is firing the bullets. The rest of us are just standing in the front lines getting shot. AI is just another type of gun for their army.

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