
AI Is a Product of Humanity. Humanity Should Own AI.
Big Tech has looted humanity’s creative output to create artificial intelligence. We don’t just deserve a share of AI’s profits — we deserve control over it.
Cecilia Rikap is a University College London associated professor in economics, the head of research of UCL’s Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose, and the author of The Rulers. Corporate Power in the Age of AI and the Cloud and Teoría de la Dependencia Digital. Soberanía y Desarrollo en el Capitalismo del Siglo XXI, among other books.

Big Tech has looted humanity’s creative output to create artificial intelligence. We don’t just deserve a share of AI’s profits — we deserve control over it.

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