tech
December 30, 2025
We must take control of AI now, before it’s too late
Anja Cradden proposes ways of managing tech companies before we reach crisis point. Plus letters from Mike Scott and Gerry Rees
TL;DR
- Concern that when the AI bubble bursts, the wealthy will dictate rescue plans that transfer wealth from citizens to themselves, similar to the 2008 financial crisis.
- Proposal for governments to buy majority shares in crashing useful tech companies and instruct them to break up into national entities, pay local taxes, and obey local laws.
- Suggestion for governments to invest in infrastructure and wages within these companies and sell shares for profit once they recover.
- Alternative idea to shut down AI and data centers to conserve power and water for human needs.
- Urgency to develop alternative plans now to prevent the super-rich from imposing their preferred solutions.
- Disagreement with waiting for the AI bubble to burst, arguing that AI could sabotage control attempts and that action is needed now.
- Worry that AI could lead to the end of humanity and the need to control it before it controls us.
- A brief mention of Fredric Brown's short story where a supercomputer declares 'There is now' a God.
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