The tech industry’s embrace of their Ruler’s AI agenda isn’t about innovation, it’s about ethics abandoned. What we’re watching is the behavioral mechanics of cruelty turned into policy: deregulation as domination, spectacle as distraction, and suffering normalized as the cost of doing business.
As I argued in The World Ahead 2026, America’s operating system has shifted…institutions no longer reward competence or law, they reward manipulation and rent‑seeking.
AI is being treated not as a tool for progress but as a bubble to be inflated, a theater for insiders to consolidate wealth while the public is left exposed to collapse.
This isn’t innovation, it’s extraction. And until ethics are restored as the baseline, every “deal” will be a deal with cruelty.
When Dems take back the house, Jeffries should not be Leader. I don’t think he’s actually aware of the moment we’re in and is therefore not ready for it.
The quote below is from fiction, but it reminds me of the lack of any moral dialogue on AI:
Terminator 2: Judgment Day
The Terminator: In three years, Cyberdyne will become the largest supplier of military computer systems. All stealth bombers are upgraded with Cyberdyne computers, becoming fully unmanned. Afterwards, they fly with a perfect operational record. The Skynet Funding Bill is passed. The system goes online August 4th, 1997. Human decisions are removed from strategic defense. Skynet begins to learn at a geometric rate. It becomes self-aware at 2:14 a.m. Eastern time, August 29th. In a panic, they try to pull the plug.
Sarah Connor: Skynet fights back.
The Terminator: Yes. It launches its missiles against the targets in Russia.
John Connor: Why attack Russia? Aren't they our friends now?
The Terminator: Because Skynet knows that the Russian counterattack will eliminate its enemies over here.
In today’s dollars, the gross revenue of that movie would be $1.25 billion. Beyond the action, did no one get the theme that we should be asking about what AI means to humanity?
Well, of course these tech billionaires work hard! Outfitting yachts, propping up neonazis and other bigots, screwing both customer and employee alike.
Cosseting a liar, rapist and probable pedophile brings honor to this country and oneself, says the men whose billions has brought neither wisdom nor courage.
The tech industry’s embrace of their Ruler’s AI agenda isn’t about innovation, it’s about ethics abandoned. What we’re watching is the behavioral mechanics of cruelty turned into policy: deregulation as domination, spectacle as distraction, and suffering normalized as the cost of doing business.
As I argued in The World Ahead 2026, America’s operating system has shifted…institutions no longer reward competence or law, they reward manipulation and rent‑seeking.
AI is being treated not as a tool for progress but as a bubble to be inflated, a theater for insiders to consolidate wealth while the public is left exposed to collapse.
This isn’t innovation, it’s extraction. And until ethics are restored as the baseline, every “deal” will be a deal with cruelty.
—Johan
Thank you for an excellent analysis of the troubled and scary AI situation.
When Dems take back the house, Jeffries should not be Leader. I don’t think he’s actually aware of the moment we’re in and is therefore not ready for it.
The quote below is from fiction, but it reminds me of the lack of any moral dialogue on AI:
Terminator 2: Judgment Day
The Terminator: In three years, Cyberdyne will become the largest supplier of military computer systems. All stealth bombers are upgraded with Cyberdyne computers, becoming fully unmanned. Afterwards, they fly with a perfect operational record. The Skynet Funding Bill is passed. The system goes online August 4th, 1997. Human decisions are removed from strategic defense. Skynet begins to learn at a geometric rate. It becomes self-aware at 2:14 a.m. Eastern time, August 29th. In a panic, they try to pull the plug.
Sarah Connor: Skynet fights back.
The Terminator: Yes. It launches its missiles against the targets in Russia.
John Connor: Why attack Russia? Aren't they our friends now?
The Terminator: Because Skynet knows that the Russian counterattack will eliminate its enemies over here.
In today’s dollars, the gross revenue of that movie would be $1.25 billion. Beyond the action, did no one get the theme that we should be asking about what AI means to humanity?
Well, of course these tech billionaires work hard! Outfitting yachts, propping up neonazis and other bigots, screwing both customer and employee alike.
Be careful what you wish for… you just may get it.👍This is a no-brainer.🙄
What will burst the AI bubble?
Law suits by grieving parents whose children were led to suicide by chatbots?
People infuriated by AI driven increases in electricity bills?
Politicians damaged by repulsive AI images on social media?
Workers fired so filthy rich shareholders can suck up a few more bucks?
Or will AI make us so stupid we think this is normal?
Great article. And of course Jeffries is all in on AI. Money from donors is his biggest concern.
. And of course.
The world’s laziest leader encourages his cult to rely on AI … cuz thinking for oneself is bad.
Especially when one's opponents persist in doing it!
How dare they? Off with their heads!
Cosseting a liar, rapist and probable pedophile brings honor to this country and oneself, says the men whose billions has brought neither wisdom nor courage.
AI is not a force for good
Read More Everything Forever. These billionaires are determined to make their adolescent sci-fi fantasies into reality.