Steven Bartlett with Karen Hao
Tech giants are selling a utopian vision of artificial intelligence to maintain control, but their relentless pursuit of dominance masks severe environmental damage and the exploitation of an underpaid workforce.
AI companies extract massive amounts of intellectual property and exploit cheap labor to build models that ultimately threaten to displace those same workers.
The massive data centers required to power these technologies consume dangerous amounts of fresh water and electricity, severely harming vulnerable local communities.
Industry leaders purposefully hype the existential risks of artificial intelligence to convince regulators that only they are capable of safely managing it.