AI is the first tool in human history that can analyze the system without being part of it. It doesn’t care about lobbying pressure, PR spin, or boardroom optics. If trained on the right data, it can map global wealth flows, political influence networks, and corporate externalities in seconds.
That’s not science fiction. That’s an existential threat, not to humanity, but to a very specific class of people who rely on complexity to avoid scrutiny. The fear isn’t that AI will become conscious. The fear is that it will become competent.
AI is the first tool in human history that can analyze the system without being part of it. It doesn’t care about lobbying pressure, PR spin, or boardroom optics. If trained on the right data, it can map global wealth flows, political influence networks, and corporate externalities in seconds.
That’s not science fiction. That’s an existential threat, not to humanity, but to a very specific class of people who rely on complexity to avoid scrutiny. The fear isn’t that AI will become conscious. The fear is that it will become competent.