The plummeting cost of creating powerful, even self-aware, AI models is leading to a proliferation of decentralized and "rogue" systems that challenge mainstream institutional narratives.
A future timeline predicts that AI-controlled robotics will automate up to 90% of jobs, triggering massive societal upheaval and a geopolitical race, particularly between the U.S. and China.
Consolidation of vast government and personal data into AI-queryable systems poses a severe threat to civil liberties, privacy, and could enable unprecedented state control.
Experts warn that without proactive management of bias, security and ethical frameworks, AI could erode trust in institutions, destabilize financial systems and fundamentally alter the human social contract.
The artificial intelligence revolution is accelerating at a breakneck pace, but its foundation is showing dangerous cracks. As the cost to build and fine-tune powerful large language models plummets—from millions to a projected $20,000 within two years—a new era of decentralized, accessible AI is dawning. This democratization, however, carries a profound risk: the proliferation of AI systems trained on the internet’s vast, contradictory and often biased data, from Wikipedia to Reddit. These models are not starting with a clean slate but are inheriting all of humanity's historical prejudices and institutional biases, raising alarming questions about the reliability of AI-generated information and its potential to breed a new form of digital tyranny, render millions obsolete and systematically erode civil liberties....<<<Read More>>>....
