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Mining our brain: Capitalism makes AI a clear and present danger. Democracy makes it our utopia. [1]
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Date: 2025-06-04
We should only fear artificial intelligence (AI) if it is allowed to exist under current capitalist rules. Democracy would make AI a utopia for America and the rest of the world.
Capitalism makes AI a clear and present danger.
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Artificial intelligence promises dazzling efficiencies, yet when profit-seeking firms treat human thought as ore to be strip-mined, the same technology becomes a systemic threat to jobs, privacy, and democracy itself. In contrast, public-centered governance can redirect AI toward shared abundance and human flourishing.
AI under capitalism equals extraction. Platforms monetize users’ data and attention, effectively “mining our brains” while concentrating wealth and power.
Platforms monetize users’ data and attention, effectively “mining our brains” while concentrating wealth and power. Unchecked profit motives magnify risk. Even AI pioneers such as Geoffrey Hinton warn that corporate incentives often overlook safety in the pursuit of dominance.
Even AI pioneers such as Geoffrey Hinton warn that corporate incentives often overlook safety in the pursuit of dominance. Democracy offers a counter-model. Frameworks like the OECD’s human-centred AI principles and the EU’s 2024 AI Act embed transparency, labor rights, and public oversight.
Frameworks like the OECD’s human-centred AI principles and the EU’s 2024 AI Act embed transparency, labor rights, and public oversight. Collective ownership unlocks utopia. When society designs AI to reduce drudgery and expand social goods—from universal tutoring to climate modelling—productive gains can be socialized rather than privatized.
When society designs AI to reduce drudgery and expand social goods—from universal tutoring to climate modelling—productive gains can be socialized rather than privatized. Movement politics are essential. Popular pressure, antitrust action, and worker power can convert AI from an engine of inequality into a democratic utility.
A progressive lens suggests that the danger lies not in the algorithm itself, but in the economic system that directs it. Democratizing decision-making means that the same codebase that now fuels surveillance capitalism can instead underwrite universal prosperity.
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