The prevailing “#AI takeover” doomsday narrative, complete with Hollywood-inspired visions of sentient machines running amok, is a brilliantly crafted distraction. The genuine existential threat isn’t rogue algorithms rising against humans; it’s the shadowy coalition of tech barons, venture capitalists, and data oligopolists who secretly pull the strings.
As everything from mobile operating systems to social media feeds is now being embedded with AI, Big Tech data barons are being further empowered to manipulate public perception on a massive scale while simultaneously being able to automatically censor ideas they don't like in real time.
Whether orchestrated by secretive alliances between Silicon Valley investors and government contractors or driven by profit‐hungry data barons, the result is the same: a global population lulled into believing that “the machines” act autonomously, when in reality, every recommendation, every “neutral” news snippet, and every job‐screening decision carries the unmistakable fingerprint of its human overlords. The real danger lies not in the AI systems themselves, but in those who control them. The
