The idea of “AI liberating humanity” is such a seductive illusion
The wealthy already own corporations, but AI‑run corporations change the scale of that ownership entirely. A rich person today can only run a company through human labour, human managers, human limitations. A rich person tomorrow can run ten, a hundred, a thousand companies through autonomous systems that never sleep, never strike, never demand rights, and never slow down. That means the wealthy don’t just stay wealthy — they compound their power at a rate ordinary people cannot possibly match. The poor remain human, with human limits. The rich acquire non‑human extensions of themselves that operate with superhuman efficiency. That is not just inequality; it is asymmetry.
