20260402 KI regulieren!

Regulate AI before it's too late

In 3 longer articles and the accompanying videos, we have pointed out the shortcomings of so-called artificial intelligence and, in a statement we attempted to explain why AI should be completely avoided in the production of images and videos.

The latest email from the Ekō team cites yet another reason why the current development of artificial intelligence is heading in the wrong direction. It comes down to ownership. AI research is not in the hands of the people, but of a handful of tech billionaires. The results of this research are driven not by open source principles, but by self-interest. Eko.org writes to us:

URGENT: Tech billionaires are infiltrating governments around the world, pushing their interests, manipulating elections, and advocating for AI to remain unregulated — so they can continue to profit from wars, pandemics, and exploitation. AI was built on our collective human knowledge — it belongs to us, not to a handful of billionaires. Currently, a handful of power-hungry billionaires like Elon Musk and Sam Altman are racing to become the No. 1 in AI. They treat the entire world like a laboratory, and we are all guinea pigs forced to serve as test subjects for their experiments.

Their profit-driven motto, “Move fast and break things”, has already spawned a nightmare: AI tools that allow laypeople to develop biological weapons, suicide chatbots, and — most alarmingly — AI models that repeatedly suggest nuclear attacks in military war-gaming scenarios. The developers of this technology seem indifferent to the catastrophic consequences, as long as their stock prices keep rising and they retain their seat at the table of world leaders.

We have already witnessed the devastating consequences of leaving it up to big tech companies to regulate themselves — democracies shaken by disinformation on an industrial scale; societies torn apart by algorithmically driven hate; our privacy violated, and our children harmed.

This technology depends on the sum of all human knowledge and creativity. Therefore, AI belongs to all of us — to all of humanity — and not just to tech billionaires like Sam Altman of OpenAI and Alex Karp of Palantir. The world has become a testing ground for their untested technology, and billions of us are their guinea pigs.

Big Tech is fighting hard against regulation — we must stand up against it with a manifesto for a human-centered world.

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