""The only way to really understand the scope and scale of OpenAI's behavior...is actually to recognize that they've already grown more powerful than pretty much any nation state in the world, and they've consolidated an extraordinary amount of not just economic power, but also political power," Hao said."They're terraforming the Earth. They're rewiring our geopolitics, all of our lives. And so you can only describe it as an empire.""
""OpenAI has described AGI as 'a highly autonomous system that outperforms humans at most economically valuable work,' one that will somehow 'elevate humanity by increasing abundance, turbocharging the economy, and aiding in the discovery of new scientific knowledge that changes the limits of possibility.'""
""These nebulous promises have fueled the industry's exponential growth - its massive resource demands, oceans of scraped data, strained energy grids, and willingness to release untested systems into the world. All in service of a future that many experts say may never arrive.""
Every empire centers on an ideology that propels expansion even when expansion contradicts the ideology's stated mission. European colonial powers used Christianity to promise salvation while extracting resources. The contemporary AI empire centers on artificial general intelligence and the pledge to benefit all humanity, with OpenAI acting as a principal evangelist and consolidator of influence. OpenAI's pursuit concentrates economic and political power and reshapes geopolitics and daily life. Promises of AGI have driven massive resource use, extensive data scraping, energy strain, and the release of inadequately tested systems, despite uncertainty about whether AGI will ever materialize.
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