AI Manifesto
Everything around you that you call life was made up by people that were no smarter than you and you can change it.
Stevus Jobsius
Today (2025)
Mainstream AI: Chatbots, AI assistants, and creative tools are a part of everyday apps.
Here’s my vision for the future of technology: power will continue to consolidate into a few big winners, but who they are is still up for grabs.
This technology is so early and so transformative, but AI is currently being utilized in old paradigms.
For the most part it’s be given away for free because we’ve been perfecting software and hardware interfaces in order to drive mass consumption of consumer tech for the past 20 years.
But I suspect that in the next 25 years AI will mostly be used in entirely different ways.
Google didn’t lose the AI race by failing to capitalize on transformers early and OpenAI didn’t win. Even though OpenAI has first-mover advantage, name-brand marketing, AI researchers, and consumer engineering talent, that’s not a moat. The open-source community has produced models that surpassed the power of OpenAI.
In fact, I see no sticking power to any pre-existing platforms beyond habit. Radical innovation, 10x improvements, and paradigm shifts could upend every major player.
Large portions of the population will get stuck in AI-generated slop-troughs - unthinkingly unable to avoid mass consumption of meaningless content.
But there will also be consumer backlash against companies that double-down too hard on AI.
AI-generated content can often have a so-what factor. Art is meaningless without a human element and human connection.
OpenAI’s generative video experiment could be a huge miss, and might create consumer backlash due to depersonalization and the so-what factor of continuousand demonetization of real creators.
AI will not only be used to perform mass surveilance but also to seed thoughts into our minds.
How do you get a populace to surveil on themselves? Pander to their laziness and inability to think.