David Friedberg: Was Jensen Taken Out So the Deep State Could Control AI?
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Brief Summary
David Friedberg warns that state-controlled AI infrastructure could enable totalitarian power, and speculates that Jensen was taken out for opposing it.
Key points
- A switch on every AI chip?. He warns that proposed legislation could require AI chips, computers, and data centers to connect to a central state system.
- The Orwellian AI warning. He argues that centralized control of AI infrastructure could enable an Orwellian, totalitarian state.
- Why Jensen was allegedly taken out. He links Jensen’s opposition to oligarchy with a startling claim that he had to be removed so a totalitarian state could use AI as a tool.
Transcript
I do worry that there is legislation coming our way with the new Congress that is going to say every AI chip and every computer and every data center has a switch and has a connection back to some central system and that central system will be a state system and we are fundamentally looking at an Orwellian state explosion if this sort of thing happens and my guess is that people know Jensen's philosophy Jensen has talked a lot about AI being for the benefit of all of humanity regardless of your country regardless of your standing regardless of your wealth He was anti- oligopoly. He was the opposite of the oligarchy. And the central state, the
totalitarian state, represents everything that I believe Jensen was against. And because of that, I think he had to be taken out if ultimately the goal is to have the totalitarian state use this technology as a tool.
