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Yeah Bernie...like you. It’s easy to talk bad about the rich, but it’s easy to point the fingers when you have 4 homes and one of them on lake front property!

Strong framing. AI does not automatically create better outcomes. It amplifies the incentives, ownership structures, and decision systems around it. That is why “what can AI do?” is often the shallow question. The deeper question is: who controls the workflow, who captures the productivity gain, and what decisions become faster, cheaper, or more centralized because of it? The technology is powerful, but the operating model decides who benefits.

Capitalism built it. Capitalism controls it. That's not cynicism, that's the architectre. Shareholder serving systems don't optimize for fairness. They optimize for predictability and control. That's not a bug in the model. It's the model. What I keep telling people: stop debating the macro and go micro. Study specific problems. Build specific solutions. Create real value in a real niche. Depth is the only defensible moat. It always has been.

The real AI debate was never primarily about technology.It has always been about power, ownership, and who gets to shape the future for everyone else.

Great point. The current system already sees benefits concentrated amongst the few. Scaling this system would only accelerate the current imbalance. The work is to define value, before driving scale

Wow, what a take. And to think that the executives in those meetings don't realize they are the decision. Most people are watching the macro debates, but the executives I work with are living the micro version of it.

Adam Hofmann Technology doesn't distribute itself, after all. Institutions may be slow, but the market isn't.

If a person says that because people are rich, that they want more money and power. First of all, I haven't met a person on the plane who doesn't say they want more money. Second of all you can find even grammar school children who say they want to be the president of the united states. So obviously wanting power is not all in itself Bad either. Plus it is a stupid idea that we simply don't want to work. Work doesn't always mean that you work for somebody but it does mean that you have a purpose in your life. We talk about life expectancy but what are you gonna do with those years that you have extended? That movie he asked about. I had a group of people who did nothing. And they came back to Earth, and what did they end up doing? But working, and it was really starting back in the stone age. And the other problem with this is the people who are talking like him about protecting workers are usually talking about having a great big government?And that's all which in itself is power hungry and usually to the extent of taking away rights.

If by AI they mean LLMs, they are dead wrong. By design, it can't solve any real problem. Only those that require combinatorial brute-force. Other problems - nope.

The question also extends to how the control is done, how much of AI are we implementing in our lives? Who controls that? Healthcare is a field that benefits the most from AI, and we need more people there but does it make more money....

Brilliant Pascal. Whether or universal basic income is a great way to motivate someone, and whether it leads to fulfilling lives is not really the question. Can we extract the wealth from the West Coast is actually the question, and Warren Buffett seems to have an idea for that too. Probably not under the current administration though.

Pascal BORNET part of this awareness that we champion, is understanding that AI is not just a resource. It is a new environment for human cognition. And the implications of a small group controlling a cognitive environment are unknown, at best.

The wrong people benefit. Why do the richtest people on this planet need more money and power? It is absurd and like a plot for a (bad) movie...

Over-simplistic view and does not carry the nuance that AI also democratizes one’s ability to build wealth/income opportunities never considered before.

The question has been answered already!

Most people are focused on what AI can automate... Very few are paying attention to who will own the leverage once intelligence, distribution & decision-making start concentrating at scale.

Alexey Volkov 🇺🇦 cuts deeper. Narrow AI as assisting tools CAN have ROI. General AI is science fiction and not safely implementable with the current state of human intelligence. A fools mission, based on hopium.

Finally someone said it out loud!

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