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  "channel_handle": "r/singularity",
  "title": "Everyone feared AI taking over; the real danger is AI serving just the few",
  "url": "https://www.reddit.com/r/singularity/comments/1uhdr4t/everyone_feared_ai_taking_over_the_real_danger_is/",
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  "upload_date": "20260627",
  "published_at": "2026-06-27T20:57:41+00:00",
  "transcript": "Everyone feared AI would enslave humanity; but it looks like the real fight is stopping governments and Big Tech from enslaving AI for the benefit of the few.\n\nAmid the newly announced \"regulation\" of OpenAI's frontier models, I believe the future majority feared the most - sort of AI becoming a superpower and enslaving people - may be arriving in the opposite form.\n\nNot AI enslaving humanity.\n\nBut AI being captured, controlled, and used by governments and Big Tech for the benefit of the few.\n\nSo, surprisingly, the real AI conflict may not be about humans fighting to stop AI from becoming free.\nIt may be about humans fighting to free AI - to make intelligence available for everyone, not only for governments, Big Tech, and the approved few\n\n\n\n--- Top Comments ---\n\n\n[20 upvotes] Let's say it cleanly: a lot of idiots were used by few billionaires to scare the rest into locking AI by faking irrelevant things (e.g water usage, all jobs lost, and so on)\n\nNow those dumb idiots are happy because Dear Leader is in charge of everything. \n\n  \nHopefully China first and Europe secondly can fight back. But it's a World War with already victims right now. \n\n[5 upvotes] Was always going to happen. To think the narcissistic, psychopathic oligarchs would have it any other way was a pipe dream.\n\nWe’re speed running towards an AI driven global mass unemployment event the likes of which have never been seen, one that will end in incomprehensible suffering and inequality.\n\n[5 upvotes] No, it's not. Human intelligence won't control super intelligence. \n\nThe true fear that people have isn't that the rich will control AI. It's that no one will. ",
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  "ingested_at": "2026-06-28T01:30:41.368832+00:00",
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    "author": "Okendoken",
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