‘There Is One Fight’: American Voters Reject Tech Oligarchy– www.404media.co
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Last month, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman told Politico that “we believe that the world should accept some bad things happening for the benefits of this technology,” referring to ChatGPT users dying, people losing their jobs to AI, and the other negative externalities we have seen from AI.
Altman wasn’t running for office Tuesday. But this worldview—that the masses must shut up and suffer while oligarchs centralize power, self-deal, spend wildly to capture the political process, and automate away human endeavors so they can amass yet more wealth—was wholly repudiated in Tuesday’s election as people in Red States, Blue States, and Purple States rejected the cruelty, corruption, and depravity economy we’ve seen over the last few years. They are tired of kleptocracy.
The main difference between Donald Trump’s administration this term and his first term is that Silicon Valley’s oligarchs have lined up to kiss the ring; look no further than the photos from his inauguration and his gilded gala with China’s President Xi Jinping earlier this fall. Every major tech company CEO has spent the last two years flattering Trump, giving him gifts, and trying to capture the political process. They have been generously rewarded for their fealty and their money as the Trump administration has spent the last two years letting Big Tech do whatever it wants.
Elon Musk was given the keys to the federal government and used them to slash critical government programs, lay off tens of thousands of public servants, and replace collective human expertise with teenaged idiots and AI algorithms. His companies have continued to rake in billions in government contracts, his busted AI has been integrated into critical government systems, and the cuts led by his “Department of Government Efficiency” has, conservatively, killed many thousands of people around the world.
