Karen Hao

They're the only ones that really understand how the technology works.

And so if the public doesn't like it, it's because they don't actually know enough about this technology.

They do this to the public.

They do this to policymakers.

And they've also captured the majority of the scientists that are working on understanding the limitations and capabilities of AI.

They are, yeah.

So if most of the climate scientists in the world were bankrolled by fossil fuel companies, do you think we would get an accurate picture of the climate crisis?

And in the same way, they employ and bankroll, the AI industry, employs and bankrolls most of the AI researchers in the world.

So they set the agenda on AI research in soft ways, simply by funneling money to their priorities so that only certain types of AI research are produced.

But they also will censor researchers when they do not like what the researcher has found.

And so I talk about the case of Dr. Timnit Gebru in my book, who was the ethical AI team co-lead at Google when she was literally hired to critique the types of AI systems that Google was building.

She then co-wrote a critical research paper that was showing how large language models specifically were leading to certain types of harmful outcomes.

And in an attempt to try and stop this research from being published, Google ended up firing Gebru and then fired her other co-lead, Margaret Mitchell.

And so they control and quash the research that is inconvenient to the empire's agenda.

This was opening.

I started subpoenaing some of its critics.

Yeah.

As as part of a campaign.

what appears to be a campaign of intimidation, but also what appeared to be a campaign of fishing for more information to figure out, to map out the network of critics further.

But this was a man who runs a small watchdog nonprofit, and they had been doing a lot of work during that time to try and ask questions about OpenAI's attempt to convert from a nonprofit to a for-profit.