Yanis Varoufakis

Would I remain solvent before the court case finished?

So it's one of the situations where you realize that supposedly here in the liberal West, we have rights.

We have no rights.

We do not even own our own audiovisual image.

Well, I'm aghast at how such a very smart, clearly competent businessman has such a low level of understanding of what capitalism or what I call techno-feudalism is like.

Now, of course, look, AI technology is brilliant.

I mean, think about it.

You know, you ask Chad GBT to take some rubbish you've written and put it in Shakespearean language and does it fantastically.

You know, having translations.

I love technology.

The question is not, is it useful?

Of course it's useful.

The question is, who owns it?

And who is excluded from using it?

And those who own it, what do they do with it?

Because you see, there is a profound difference between

a tool that helps me, as he said, do things more efficiently, take the chore out of my work and leave me with the creative aspects of my work, which give me purpose in life, that's great.

But when you have machines that are owned by 0.001% of the population,

that have the capacity to engage with you personally on a dialogue.

and pretend to be your servants, like Alexa, Amazon's Alexa, or, you know, Apple's Siri, or the Google Assistant, or whatever, one of these assistants, or the Instacart assistant, for that matter.