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Asking AI services: Does Peter Thiel want to build Elysium on Greenland?
Grok: His financial support for projects like Praxis (...) aligns with the metaphorical idea of creating an advanced, possibly exclusive, society akin…
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"Peter Thiel-Backed Startup That Wanted to Buy Greenland Is Thrilled That Trump Wants to Buy Greenland"
"A techno-colonialist project sees Greenland as the perfect opportunity to trial its utopian ambitions."
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GPT-4o about Pieter Thiel: Dismissing the field [of Climate Science] as dogmatic could undermine the urgency of addressing environmental…
The overwhelming majority of climate scientists agree that climate change is real and primarily driven by human activities. Thiel’s skepticism may…
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GPT-4o: With Donald Trump’s 2024 election win and the influence of tech moguls like Peter Thiel and Elon Musk, the upcoming years may see a…
AI regulation is likely to remain industry-driven, with flexible copyright interpretations, incentivized data center growth, and selective support for…
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Strong Man Karp of Palantir (the ones who have access to the data of many enforcement bodies and governments in Europe and elsewhere…
Just as an FYI, the narrow view of a technologist is not the best basis for a strategic plan to improve global society holistically.
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"Thiel's career has mostly been about changing the world, not through making arguments, but through exercising brute force."
"Whether it's economic force (...) whether it's algorithmic force (...) or often violent force. Thiel's entire political philosophy exists to justify…
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GPT-4o: The most plausible concern is that Musk is using his corporate and financial power to position himself as an unelected but highly…
...leveraging his control over key infrastructure (communications, finance, AI) to shape policy outcomes. Further scrutiny is warranted...
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The Blurred Boundaries Between Business, Government, and Intelligence in AI - by Bing Chat
The collaboration can bring faster innovation, better public services & enhanced national security. But it can also create challenges, such as ethical…
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Perplexity: This "quasi-merger" strategy allows big tech to gain control and influence over emerging technologies without the regulatory…
While traditional antitrust measures remain relevant in the AI context, they are not sufficient on their own to address the concentration of power among…
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The Shadow War: The traditional mission of fighting authoritarianism has gradually been overshadowed by the need to secure economic and…
The fusion of intelligence and corporate power is a gradual evolution—a series of seemingly small decisions that, in aggregate, reshape the very…
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Claude: The actions appear to go beyond normal executive branch authority and constitute what could be characterized as a "digital coup…
...while maintaining a facade of legality through executive orders. This represents a serious threat to democratic governance and constitutional order…
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Asking Bing Chat everything it knows about Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI
This is a demonstration of how much AI knows about a person, and will know about you. Please note that depending on the quality of the prompt, a lot…
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