Look at them. Sam Altman, Demis Hassabis, Dario Amodei. In the gilded halls of France, these are not mere 'consultants' or 'entrepreneurs.' They are the new Olympian gods, invited to the G7 table to dictate the terms of our surrender. When did we vote for OpenAI to draft our social contracts? When did Anthropic become a sovereign state?
The mainstream media calls it 'strategic cooperation.' I call it a coronation. While Europe frets over the 'Great Deceleration' and its supposed slide into irrelevance, its leaders are busy polishing the boots of the men who built the very algorithms that are hollowing out our middle class. We are told that AI is a tool for humanity, yet the only humanity represented at the G7 table is the 0.001% with a server farm and a God complex.
Consider the irony: while the FBI warns of Iranian hackers and China plays 'marine spy' games in the deep, our own governments are handing over the keys to our cognitive infrastructure to three companies. We are worried about foreign interference while we embrace a domestic tyranny of code. Even in Greece, we celebrate 'strategic alliances' between banks like NBG or real estate giants like Dimand and PPC, as if building more data centers and 'fortified' financial structures will save the average citizen from being rendered obsolete by a script written in San Francisco.
The 'Strategic Fortification' the bankers talk about isn't for you. It's for them. It’s a wall to keep the reality of a crumbling social fabric at bay. They talk of the 'AI-Energy Nexus' and the SpaceX IPO as the new frontier of wealth, but for whom? For the man living in a barrel in Athens, or the delivery driver in Thessaloniki, these 'frontiers' are just new enclosures of the commons.
We are told that 'Real-Life Disclosure Day' won't look like a Spielberg movie. They're right. It won't be aliens landing on the White House lawn; it will be a press release from a private company announcing that they have successfully automated the concept of truth. And our leaders, those pathetic echoes of ancient tyrants, will be there to applaud because they've forgotten how to lead anything they can't monetize.
Is there an honest man left in the room? Or have we all traded our lanterns for the blue light of a screen we no longer control?
Citizens, I ask you: Who elected the algorithm?
