The Case for Nationalizing Artificial Intelligence

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>Artificial intelligence has been built by robbing the collective work of humanity.

Conclusion of the author: "we" should own and gatekeep it, as in the US government, of course. The rest of humanity which has been "robbed of its collective work" is ignored.

Well there isn't a world-government yet and which else government should nationalize these US companies? Of course, in the long run, we need to use these democratically across the whole world.

I'm just pointing out that the moral high ground the author thinks he stands on looks more like the Mariana Trench. If he's saying that the US oligarchs stole something from the entire humanity, giving it to another US entity can't unsteal it. "Public" in this article is pure mockery, like those Soviet mental gymnastics about "people" aka proletariat and peasantry owning everything, while in practice elites did. It's not meaningfully different from OpenAI's charter talking about the benefit of the entire humanity and then colluding with the government to restrict the access to this and that part of it, because how else it could be.

Eight billion people couldn't care less what kind of the US elites own their* stuff. If the author really thinks these companies owed something to the entire humanity then the article should start with "open weights" or "compensation for the entire humanity" or something like that, not a transfer of ownership inside the US.

*according to the article

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