{"id":7560,"date":"2025-12-21T12:30:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-21T12:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/professor-ai-wealthy-inevitable\/"},"modified":"2025-12-21T12:30:00","modified_gmt":"2025-12-21T12:30:00","slug":"professor-ai-wealthy-inevitable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/professor-ai-wealthy-inevitable\/","title":{"rendered":"Professor Warns That the Wealthy Are Trying to Use AI to Seize Control of Everything"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In 2025, there seem to be as many narratives about AI as there are startups peddling the stuff. Will it transform society into a utopia<\/a>, freeing us from all responsibilities, or will it come to life and kill us all<\/a>? And who benefits from those outcomes, anyway?<\/p>\n

According to esteemed sociologist Tressie McMillan Cottom, the answer is clear: no matter which way you slice it, the AI future is for the rich.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen people try to sell you on the idea that the future is already settled, it\u2019s because it is deeply unsettled,\u201d Cottom said in a recent panel<\/a> at the Urban Consulate in Detroit. \u201cI think that, y\u2019know this promise of an artificial intelligence future, is really just a collective anxiety that very wealthy, powerful people have about how well they\u2019re gonna be able to control us.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIf they can get us to accept that the future is already settled \u2014 AI is already here, the end is already here \u2014 then we will create that for them,\u201d Cottom continued. \u201cMy most daring idea is to refuse,\u201d she said to applause.<\/p>\n

Cottom cuts to the heart of an issue that both AI doomers and AI boosters seem to take for granted: that an AI-dominated future isn\u2019t inevitable<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Given the development<\/a> plateau<\/a> tech companies seem to be running into these days, a future built on large language models (LLMs) is far from a lock. (Consider, for example, the fact that after a very recent December update, ChatGPT couldn\u2019t even generate an accurate alphabet poster for preschoolers<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

\u201cThe proposal for a post-human future is one where there will be human beings who will just be treated inhumanely,\u201d Cottom said. \u201cWe\u2019re not going to stop making people or humans, they\u2019re just saying we\u2019re not going to treat you as humans. And I refuse. And I think that we all can.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Cottom points to the historical record \u2014 for example, the fact that chattel slavery was at one time seen as a preordained fact of life<\/a>, a myth spread by the wealthiest members of that bygone age. \u201cI think that being Black is an act of refusal, I think we know how to refuse,\u201d she told the audience. \u201cI think that everybody else needs to learn it from us.\u201d<\/p>\n

And while Cottom\u2019s contention is a bleak one \u2014 the idea that the most powerful billionaires in the world are using AI to seize total control<\/a> of humanity \u2014 she isn\u2019t short on hope. \u201cI think refusing is actually the more hopeful, expansion vision of the future, than the one that is telling us that the future is already settled and decided. That\u2019s my daring idea.\u201d<\/p>\n

More on AI: <\/strong>Google CEO Says We\u2019re All Going to Have to Suffer Through It as AI Puts Society Through the Woodchipper<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

The post Professor Warns That the Wealthy Are Trying to Use AI to Seize Control of Everything<\/a> appeared first on Futurism<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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