2025/07/02

Exponential AI Growth Could Create Tech Oligarchy, AI Researcher Warns

● 02/07/2025
“If you have a vast quantity of geniuses in a data center, then that would make you a very powerful person. If you use that to produce military hardware, it’s possible we could get a concentration of power, and you might not have a democratic state anymore.”
– AI researcher Megan Kinniment, warning about power concentration as AI capabilities double every seven months. Her Berkeley-based think tank METR‘s study reveals LLMs could potentially handle month-long projects by 2030—a timeline that could further accelerate AI research.
IEEE Spectrum
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