AI is Not Replacing Your Job, It's Degrading It

Understanding AI's Nature and History

• 💡 AI is primarily a marketing term and aspiration, not a precise technical term, historically used to secure grant money and differentiate from rivals.
• 🧠 Current AI, largely based on deep learning, relies on massive computational infrastructure and vast amounts of data, leading to its centralized nature.
• 🛠️ Historically, technology like AI has been employed for labor control and rationalization, aiming to standardize and degrade work rather than solely eliminate it.

The Business Model of AI and Big Tech Power

• 📊 AI revenue largely stems from licensing APIs to third parties, government contracts, and enterprise services, with consumer apps often serving as advertisements.
• 🚀 Three major US companies (Amazon, Microsoft, Google) control approximately 70% of the global cloud infrastructure, creating significant choke points and single points of failure.
• 🌍 This concentration of power in Big Tech has profound geopolitical implications, influencing foreign policy, tariffs, and national security.

Privacy, Surveillance, and Encryption

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