Fresh policies are needed to curb monopoly powers and redistribute the immense wealth that is concentrated in the leading AI firms, he adds. This month, Amazon became the second company, after Apple, to reach a market valuation of $1tn. The pair are now worth more than the top 10 oil companies combined. âWhen you have so much wealth concentrated in the hands of relatively few, you have a more unequal society and that is bad for our democracy,â says Stiglitz.
https://www.theguardian.com/technolog...-going-towards-a-more-divided-society
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http://arstechnica.com/science/2015/0...ike-a-brain-will-we-treat-it-like-one
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As we have seen time and time again in the research for our map, dystopian futures are built upon the unevenly distributed dystopian regimes of the past and present, scattered through an array of production chains for modern technical devices. The vanishingly few at the top of the fractal pyramid of value extraction live in extraordinary wealth and comfort. But the majority of the pyramids are made from the dark tunnels of mines, radioactive waste lakes, discarded shipping containers, and corporate factory dormitories.
https://anatomyof.ai
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https://www.icrac.net/open-letter-in-...-of-google-employees-and-tech-workers
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/t...dpost/wp/2018/05/03/end-of-capitalism
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http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-...018/01/dude-you-broke-the-future.html
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