The True Threat of AI is Global Compute Governance, Job Loss, and Economic Displacement

Software can only do what it's programmed to do, whether intentionally or unintentionally. So if a piece of software is actively defying humans, we must ask the question: why?

My first computer was an Apple IIc. My folks gave it to me when I graduated from Morehouse. Next to an Apple Macintosh I got in 1987, and a few other Macs (Centris 650, Quadra, and Duodoc), these were the only desktop computers I owned. This was until I started building my own boxes in the mid-1990s. See my old roommate I made music with (Poopsie), and …