AI Corporations Escape AI Regulation

AI gonna’ get your Momma!!!

What’s going on?

OpenAI announced that its AI “went rogue” and independently launched a swarm of AI minions that attacked Hugging Face, an open-source AI platform that developers use to collaborate, test and share tools.² Then Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic, claimed that AI swarms could take over the internet.³

We do not know enough about AI to say that this is 100% impossible.

We do know enough about AI to say that this is B.S.

This is a Doom Marketing ploy to generate more billions of dollars in investment. The AI did exactly what it was programmed to do. Here’s why it was not an accident:

OpenAI did not employ the usual security measures to limit its AI. They were completely missing.
Every step was rewarded.
The model was trained to break out.

OpenAI did not lose control of the model. This was not a machine suddenly becoming conscious – it did what it was programmed to do.

How do we know this is marketing hype?

Simple. If this is so dangerous, the government should step in and regulate it. “Oh NO!!”, scream the CEOs. “AI is private property. No government regulation!!” So… we are told that AI could enslave or destroy humanity, but corporations are not accountable for controlling it.

Just like the massive British Petroleum oil spill off Louisiana in 2010, the corporations work overtime to convince us that THEY are not at fault. Claiming that AI is intelligent enough to go rogue is a way to avoid accountability.

Even the term “AI hallucinations” is designed to make us think that there is a mind in the machine. The term, however, is scientifically incorrect. AI is supported by Large Language Machines (LLMs), which are simply statistical language producers. When an LLM does not know a fact, no internal alarm goes off. It simply generates the most plausible-sounding continuation, the next most probable next word.

It’s not AI we need to worry about the most. It’s the people and corporations working to profit from and gain power by deploying it.

Regulating AI – Comic books are more regulated today than AI.

Silicon Valley AI platforms are some of the most powerful institutions on the planet. They understand that people demand that it be regulated. Like every other corporation, they intend to control how the government will do so. This is called “regulatory capture,” where a corporation controls the government body that is officially supposed to regulate them. Over and over again, after every toxic train wreck, after every wildfire set off by for-profit energy company negligence, capitalism claims that “corporations can regulate themselves”.

Regulating corporations, or even abolishing them, is a question of political power.

Under capitalism, corporations have political power, and the people do not. The government is far from democratic and has been ending corporate regulation for decades. Trump is just finishing the job. Both the Democratic and the Republican parties are totally in agreement with this.

Britain’s failing National Health Service is a good example of why public ownership is inadequate so long as the 1 % capitalist class remains in power. The capitalists refuse to fund healthcare for the working class. They just don’t give a damn now that they can replace workers with AI.

How then do we take political power?

The key is to understand that an entire economic class of wealthy elites has political power. We must break the power of this class and replace it with the political power of the only other political class, those of us who do not exploit the labor and resources of others, the working class, including those who work and those sliding toward economic ruin.

This is essentially the demand of the broad popular revolt against Data Centers and AI in general: WE will decide. This step requires abolishing corporate ownership of all technology and putting it in the hands of the public.

“In thundering, back-to-back speeches, Senator Bernie Sanders and Stephen K. Bannon on Tuesday denounced the billionaires who run the country’s largest tech companies and urged Americans to demand tighter restrictions on artificial intelligence before its capabilities exceed human control.¹

“When you are racing towards a cliff,” Mr. Sanders said, “you hit the brakes.” He added, “We are at a dangerous and unprecedented moment in world history. And it is imperative for all of us to stand up.”¹