Yesterday I wrote about AI, nuance, and who gets left holding the cost of other people's certainty.
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Yesterday I wrote about AI, nuance, and who gets left holding the cost of other people's certainty. Today I want to go a layer deeper.
I saw a post where Sam Altman appears to be playing a long game: keep ChatGPT accessible long enough that it becomes so embedded in how people run their businesses and lives that it functions like a utility. And once that dependency is established, move to a rate structure not unlike gas, electricity, or water.
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Yesterday I wrote about AI, nuance, and who gets left holding the cost of other people's certainty. Today I want to go a layer deeper.
I saw a post where Sam Altman appears to be playing a long game: keep ChatGPT accessible long enough that it becomes so embedded in how people run their businesses and lives that it functions like a utility. And once that dependency is established, move to a rate structure not unlike gas, electricity, or water.
My friend raised this concern before I saw the post. The fear is that what could be a genuine public good gets treated like every other opportunity: extract maximum value from the people who now cannot function without it.
This is not a hypothetical. This is the pattern.
And every rabbit hole I go down, every angle I examine this from, I end up in the same place: the Profit Without Oppression Guiding Principles. Specifically number one and number four.
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My friend raised this concern before I saw the post. The fear is that what could be a genuine public good gets treated like every other opportunity: extract maximum value from the people who now cannot function without it.
This is not a hypothetical. This is the pattern.
And every rabbit hole I go down, every angle I examine this from, I end up in the same place: the Profit Without Oppression Guiding Principles. Specifically number one and number four.
Tech is Not Neutral, Nor is it Apolitical.
Prioritize the Most Vulnerable.
AI is not neutral. The decisions being made right now about access, pricing, dependency, and control are political decisions with economic consequences. They will not land evenly. They never do. The people least positioned to absorb a rate increase, least able to negotiate alternatives, most dependent on accessible tools to bridge gaps that more privileged people do not even know exist,
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Tech is Not Neutral, Nor is it Apolitical.
Prioritize the Most Vulnerable.
AI is not neutral. The decisions being made right now about access, pricing, dependency, and control are political decisions with economic consequences. They will not land evenly. They never do. The people least positioned to absorb a rate increase, least able to negotiate alternatives, most dependent on accessible tools to bridge gaps that more privileged people do not even know exist,
those are the people who will pay most when the utility model arrives.
Prioritizing the most vulnerable is not charity. It is the only design principle that forces you to account for the full cost of what you are building before you build it.
The void does not disappear because you found a profitable way to stand at its edge.
#LifeBeyondTheSupremacyMyth #MythOfWhiteSupremacy #ProfitWithoutOppression #KimCrayton
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