The Race to Stop AI's Threats to Democracy

[Nevilledog]

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/10/openai-chatgpt-sam-altman-artificial-intelligence-karen-hao/

OpenAI became the world’s most valuable private company last week after a stock deal pushed the value of the artificial intelligence developer to $500 billion. The company and its remarkable chatbot ChatGPT have single-handedly accelerated AI’s boom and threatened to upend much of how we work, create, learn, and communicate in the process.

But when OpenAI was founded a decade ago, the company’s approach to artificial intelligence wasn’t taken seriously in Silicon Valley. Tech journalist Karen Hao has been covering OpenAI’s astounding rise for years and recently wrote a book about the company, Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman’s OpenAI. She says that while many in Silicon Valley warn of AI’s sci fi–like threats, the real risks are already here.

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“We are allowing the tech industry to consolidate this extraordinary degree of resources unlike anything ever before,” she tells More To The Story host Al Letson. “We thought that they were already powerful during the social media era. In the AI era, the amount of resources and the amount of influence and domination that they now have is of a fundamentally different degree.”

The Center for Investigative Reporting, which produces Mother Jones, Reveal, and More To The Story, is currently suing OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement.

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[2naSalit]

1. AI needs to..

Die and really soon before it kills us.

[highplainsdem]

2. We - individually, and as a society - need to take a stand against generative AI, and not use it

voluntarily. The AI bros want us to normalize it, to add it to every area of our lives. To think we HAVE to have it. To believe - incorrectly - that it makes us smarter, more talented, more creative.

Most importantly, the AI bros want us to believe that it's inevitable, that there's no point in trying to resist it.

They want us dumbed down and dependent on the AI they control.

[Nevilledog]

4. AI will turn people into morons.

New study shows how AI causes cognitive deficits

https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08872

Study
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.08872

[highplainsdem]

3. Thanks for posting this, Nevilledog!

[Nevilledog]

5. ...

[hunter]

6. AI and the surveillance state it enables can go to hell.

I'm hoping the industry is in the first stage of collapse. Corporations that are floundering and laying off employees are waiving around AI as a magic wand to distract investors who might otherwise be concerned.

There is no magic.