“The #AI revolution can’t happen if we all don’t believe hard enough in it” sounds like the motivational speech you’d hear from a cult leader rather than in #Davos.

And perhaps the current vision for AI outlined by American Big Tech starts to have more the features of an oligopolist cult rather than a genuine technological movement for human progress.

Just because #Satya and his friends have invested trillions to build a new shiny toy, it doesn’t mean that we’re all supposed to use it, that we’re all supposed to use it the way they want, and use only the version of the toy that they have built.

Technological progress happens when many competing implementations and visions are tested by consumers, when consumers have options and when they have the final say.

Not when a billionaire says from a stage that we should all believe in what he has built.

Even a libertarian here would probably acknowledge that this doctrine of coerced induced demand is exactly the opposite of what capitalism is supposed to be.

https://www.irishtimes.com/business/2026/01/20/ai-boom-could-falter-without-wider-adoption-microsoft-chief-satya-nadella-warns/

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