They protected us because they needed us. AI ends the need. Writing on power, ownership & the Point of No Need. Author of HumanityEclipse.
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For all of history, ordinary people had one protection the powerful couldn't ignore: they needed us.
AI is built to end that need.
Not a robot uprising. Something quieter. A world that runs perfectly without you.
Imagine a profitable factory whose owners can get everything they need without buying a thing from the town next door. The town can still hold an election. Its residents can still ask for a deal. What can they withhold if the owners refuse?
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Preparing for layoffs is only half the job. If AI lets companies produce more with fewer workers, give workers a claim on some of that gain while they still have leverage to negotiate. A promise to help after displacement leaves the owners setting the terms.
Fed Governor Michael Barr warned the rapid adoption of AI risks deepening inequality in the near term, and policymakers need to be ready for the possibility of serious short-term disruptions in the job market bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
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A school for robots. Meanwhile young workers can't land a first job and nobody's building them an academy. The machines get the training, the humans get "universal high income" promises. Who holds the deed to the robots? Not the people being replaced. xitter.gq/elonmusk/status/212076…
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A company can keep its factory in town after it automates the last shift. The trucks still leave every morning. The diner across the street loses its breakfast crowd. The owner can call that factory a success. The town has a different set of books.
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Taking strain off someone's shoulders is a real gain. Now follow the people who used to make the dough. Did they move into safer jobs at the same pay, lose hours, or leave altogether? Those outcomes belong alongside the production numbers.
Domino's dough-making robots are speeding up production and replacing jobs that are tough on workers' bodies
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Superintelligence as national defense, owned by a handful of private companies. If it protects the country but answers only to its owners, who is it actually protecting? The danger isn't an AI that rebels. It's one that obeys perfectly and never needs the rest of us. xitter.gq/WSJ/status/21205624025…
From @WSJopinion: Our best cyber defense is American super intelligence. The U.S. needs to maintain its lead to reap the full benefits of our technology and protect the country, writes @SecScottBessent.
on.wsj.com/4japsl6
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A grocery chain could automate its warehouses and close stores in towns it no longer finds profitable. Its cost per case falls. A resident without a car now has to find a ride for groceries. Both changes belong in the accounting of what automation saved.
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D.C. is still deciding the terms of robotaxi deployment. That gives drivers and maintenance workers a chance to bargain over pay, safety and what happens to their jobs. The time to put that right in law is while the fleets still need the city's permission.
DC Councilmember @CharlesAllen’s revised AV bill gives rideshare drivers and AV maintenance workers the right to organize.
It was already the most robust AV bill in America, and now it’s in a league of its own.
My rapid analysis 👇
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$1.4 trillion for the company whose CEO keeps warning AI will gut entry-level white-collar work. Replacing workers gets priced in. The workers get a warning. If abundance is for everyone, why does the ownership go only to whoever can buy shares? xitter.gq/Forbes/status/21201922…
Anthropic is seeking a $1.4 trillion valuation in its initial public offering later this month. It sets a $70 to $78 per-share price range for an offering that could make it the biggest stock market debut in history.
Read more: forbes.com/sites/fionariley/…
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A delivery robot can pass a town every day on its way to somewhere profitable. The road stays open. The clinic closes. The town still shows up on the map, but nobody who owns the route needs it to thrive. That is how abundance could pass people by.
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A school should be able to turn off an AI feature and keep ordinary search. If the only way to decline a new system is to give up a tool your students already rely on, the vendor is making a decision that belongs to the school.
Who gets to decide when and how school kids use A.I?
A U.S. senator urges Google to give schools a switch to turn off student access to the A.I. features in search.
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"Universal high income" is a promise, not a plan. No mechanism, no law, no stake. Just trust the people who will own the superintelligence. Abundance has never distributed itself. If it's really coming, why not put the shares in our names today? xitter.gq/Osint613/status/211976…
Elon Musk:
Superintelligence will saturate all human needs by far.
There will be universal high income, universal extremely high income, universal medical care that is better than the best medical care available on Earth today.
You could wish for a castle or whatever you want, basically, and digital superintelligence can make it for you as a side project.
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Picture an automated port during a strike. The union walks out and the ships keep moving. Workers still have the legal right to strike. The port owner has lost a reason to bargain. Build institutions that can enforce the public's terms while a walkout can still stop the ships.
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A lab can publish a safety report and ship anyway. Give independent evaluators access before release, the authority to publish what they find, and a clear path to halt a deployment. Otherwise the company being evaluated still decides what the evaluation is worth.
With public anxiety growing over mounting reports about out-of-control artificial intelligence agents, the tiny U.S. government division charged with assessing the safety of new AI offerings lacks a permanent leader and has stopped publishing its research. to.pbs.org/3XclmQS
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They're not trimming managers. They're deleting the last humans whose job was to speak for everyone under them. Once a firm no longer needs a chain of command, what leverage does anyone inside it still have? xitter.gq/FT/status/211932385822…
AI is coming for managers’ headcount ft.trib.al/AyKbVbc | opinion
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A town can celebrate a factory that doubles its output while watching its tax base and payroll shrink. Ask where the savings land, who can claim them and whether the town can keep its schools and clinics open. Those are the accounts that tell you who got richer.
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A law matters when someone can enforce it. Publish what triggers an intervention, who can order it and what happens if a lab ignores it. Set those terms while the public still has leverage over how frontier systems are built and deployed.
Gregory Allen talking to Bloomberg about the possibility of passing any strong AI regulation in the next two years:
'The second thing I would say is, in terms of what regulation might actually look like, don't be fooled by the sort of press release style legislation proposals. There are folks who are saying ban superintelligence now. There are folks who are saying ban data center construction nationwide right now. None of that really has any chance of passing. Whatever legislation is going to become law in the next two years has to survive 60 votes to beat a filibuster in the Senate, and potentially has to survive a White House veto.'
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Productivity up, unit labor costs down: that is the owners winning the split. Output rising while labor's share falls is not shared abundance. Who claims the surplus when workers are no longer needed? xitter.gq/KobeissiLetter/status/…
BREAKING: US nonfarm labor productivity rose at a +3.5% annualized in Q3 2026, its largest increase since Q3 2025.
This also marks its 3rd consecutive quarterly improvement.
Nonfarm business output, which excludes the impact of government spending, surged at a +3.7% annualized rate, the strongest growth rate since Q3 2025.
Hourly compensation rose at a +2.9% annualized rate.
As productivity growth outpaced hourly compensation, unit labor costs, which measure labor costs per unit of output, declined -0.7% last quarter, the first quarterly decline since Q2 2025.
This largely a product of companies investing heavily in AI, software, and equipment to improve efficiency, increase output, and contain labor expenses.
AI is catalyzing a major US productivity surge.
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Imagine a city whose water system runs on AI. The engineers who built it retire. The supplier still has the only keys. When the city asks for a change, the supplier can say no. Public control has to be built into the system while the public can still set the terms.
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Public AI funds should never be used to break workers' bargaining power. A union can negotiate over automation while employers still need its members. Give workers a binding say over deployment and a claim on the gains before that leverage disappears.
How would that make the economy grow?
Workers’ earn and spend their wages in the local economy.
They don’t offshore it in tax havens.
So unless your AI idea includes a plan for an era of universal abundance all you’re actually doing is killing your beloved capitalism.
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