“We thought AI would make us smarter. We were wrong. It is turning our best specialists into highly paid button-pushers, and we ourselves are paying for this transformation.” - HardIT.tech
The Illusion of Democratization as Strategic Dumping
Mainstream discourse views artificial intelligence through the lens of the productivity curve. This is a fundamental error of perception. Generative AI is not a new printing press; it is the first tool in history to make the production of knowledge economically unviable for those who do not own it from the outset.
Free access to LLMs is a classic predatory pricing tactic aimed at eliminating competitors. When universities in Europe and Asia close departments of computational mathematics and corporations cut senior staff, replacing them with prompt operators, they are committing civilizational suicide for the sake of quarterly payroll savings. Centers of power sell painkillers after first breaking the patient’s legs.
We argue that control over AI stacks is shifting from an economic advantage into a lever of existential pressure. Whoever controls transformer architectures gains the ability to directly determine the trajectory of degradation of entire states.
