Five men control AI. Who should control them?

andsoitis 17 points 22 comments April 16, 2026
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Discussion Highlights (7 comments)

saltyoldman

The countries that they're in already do via the law. No one else should "control" someone.

billfor

Clearly the Economist and their panel of experts.

gizmodo59

“Insider is supported by ANTHROPIC“ get their money and act like independent? What a joke

comrade1234

No Chinese? Guess they're no good at ai.

judahmeek

https://ai-2027.com does a solid job of demonstrating the existential risk of the singularity. If it is actually approaching, we need leaders who will give potential black swan events the severe caution they are due. I sure hope the theoretical timeline is compressed because the singularity under Donald Trump likely means that we're all dead due to misalignment.

xnx

Demis Hassabis is on their list? He reports to Sundar (who reports to Sergey Brin?)

danny_codes

lol bit of a stretch there, seeing as there are dozens of companies training LLMs. As training software and infrastructure matures plenty more entrants will enter the market. It’s not like this is a particularly challenging research field, just very expensive at the moment.

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