By Roger Montgomery
Publication Date: 2025-11-24 19:00:00
Why the people who develop AI don’t touch it
Vermont US Senator Bernie Sanders and Professor Geoffrey Hinton – considered the “Godfather of AI” – pointed out last week at Georgetown University that artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics are not inherently bad, but the people driving this technology revolution are the richest people in the world. They suggest that Musk and Bezos, for example, don’t stay awake at night worrying about ordinary people. They don’t worry about working people. They don’t spend hundreds of billions of dollars to extend life expectancy, fight global warming, shorten the workweek and provide quality health care. They just want more wealth and more power.
Clearly, Sanders believes her motivations are incompatible with a just future. So the question is not whether AI is inherently good or bad; It’s about who controls it and who benefits from it.
Of course as a professor…
