Five tech giants are funneling $7.6 trillion into AI by 2030. All building the same thing. Same models, same data, same race to own the same market. That money could end extreme poverty. Several times over. Data centers will consume triple the electricity of entire developing nations this decade. The intelligence they produce is Western by design, blind to tropical medicine, regional monsoons, a billion lived realities. The public pays. In water. In carbon. In data taken without consent. Market logic guarantees this continues. Competition rewards speed and secrecy, not safety. We've broken this before. CERN. The Human Genome Project. The Montreal Protocol. Rivals set aside ownership and governed something together. AGI needs that. A non-commercial, international cooperative. Not utopian, just the only arrangement that doesn't end badly. For a fraction of what's spent on duplication, we could build it. Five competing fire extinguishers while the house burns. That's the alternative.
AI ReasoningThe submission offers a critical perspective on the current trajectory of AI development, discussing its economic, environmental, and ethical implications, and proposing an alternative cooperative model. This makes it a thoughtful reflection on a societal issue.
