by Marty Hart-Landsberg

This post starts a multipart series aimed at cutting through the fog of AI hype in order to help us understand some of the real dangers we face from AI use and highlight hopeful avenues of effective resistance.  It offers an overview of my argument.  Following posts will take up the relevant issues in more detail.

Overview

Artificial intelligence covers a broad range of technologies.  But there is only one that dominates the news and financial markets—the multimodal generative AI systems produced by leading tech companies, in particular ChatGPT (OpenAI), Claude (Anthropic), Gemini (Google), Grok (xAI), Copilot (Microsoft), and Llama (Meta).  Tech leaders are all in on this type of AI because of its potential to secure them great wealth and political power.  It also happens to be the type that is most threatening to our well-being, although not for the reasons commonly given by tech leaders and echoed by most media.

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