What is network power? It’s power produced by network effects and infrastructure: it doesn’t rule through laws, it makes the dominant standard unavoidable. App stores, logins, algorithms, and cloud services create lock-in and dependency—leaving is possible, but costs too much.
In 2025 democracy is brokered by opaque algorithms, global finance and AI surveillance. Platforms build personalized echo chambers, weaponize emotion, and harvest everyone’s data. Real power is invisible: whoever programs the networks decides what we see, what we think, what counts as true.
Calling AI “neutral” is a polite cover for political and industrial control. Models reflect human choices and media biases. Without public compute and auditability, we surrender our culture to corporate narratives. Europe must respond with law, infrastructure, and transparency.
What is AGI, really? Not a single brain but a distributed system emerging from hardware, software, and networks. From LLM coherence to embodied mind: why the AI “body” matters, how to allocate attention, and govern power, data, and protocols responsibly.
wo billion, no product: with Thinking Machines Lab, Mira Murati pursues deterministic AI—always consistent and reproducible. Between the probabilistic path of LLMs and the rigidity of Symbolic AI, the goal is a batch-invariant runtime to remove variability and hallucinations. Opportunities for finance, research and governance; risks for human freedom and ambiguity. Can reality be reduced to language?
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