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Top 10 AI Companies-Billionaire Owners
Artificial Intelligence, like any other tool, can be used for good or evil. Remember, the power and “Freedom of the press Is guaranteed only to those who own one.” Given the billionaires who own and control AI, and their profit interests, how is and will it be used? What are the government and military’s interests in AI?

View “AI has hacked the code of human civilization,” Acclaimed historian Yuval Harari‘s brilliant Oxford video (July 2026, 40 mins). Harari dubs AI “Alien Intelligence” to distinguish it from human society, and argues AIs are shifting from being tools to increasingly autonomous agents, becoming “the new immigrants. Please share it widely, plus many ways activists and organizations are already addressing the AI threat below.

Like the Chinese character for “crisis,” AI brings danger and
opportunity, a “change point,” for humanity, planet, and future.


Threats of AI and Data Centers — to water and land use, electric generation and costs, democratic governance, toxic pollution — and the growing movement opposing them.

18 Long-term Dangers of AI*

1. Lack of AI Transparency and Explainability
2. Job Losses Due to AI Automation
3. Social Manipulation Through AI Algorithms (and deep fakes)
4. Social Surveillance With AI Technology
5. Lack of Data Privacy Using AI Tools
6. Biases Due to AI (and bad data)
7. Worse Socioeconomic Inequality as a Result of AI
8. Weakening Ethics and Goodwill Because of AI
9. Autonomous Weapons Powered by AI
10. Financial Crises Brought About by AI Algorithms
11. Broader Economic and Political Instability
12. Loss of Human Influence
13. Increased Criminal Activity and Child Safety Concerns
14. Mental Deterioration and Psychological Harm
15. Uncontrollable Self-Aware AI
16. Intellectual Property Infringement
17. Nonconsensual Image Generation
18. Environmental Deterioration
*Compiled by Mike Thomas

*Compare these with
potential benefits from AI.


Tech Billionaires Zuckerberg, Bezos, Pichai and Musk at US Inauguration Jan. 20, 2025


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