The AI power grab. Where we go from here:

Demis Hassabis, the head of Google's DeepMind, views the AI revolution as 10 times bigger than the industrial revolution and 10 times faster.

The AI revolution will have 100 times the impact that the industrial revolution had.

Four AI companies are spending almost $700 billion this year to build data centers across the United States.

Senator Bernie Sanders believes AI has received far too little discussion in Congress despite its extraordinary importance and rapid progression.

Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, and Larry Ellison are among the wealthiest people in the world investing hundreds of billions of dollars in AI and robotics.

Senator Bernie Sanders believes multi-billionaires are investing in AI and robotics primarily to increase their wealth and power exponentially, not to improve life for ordinary Americans.

AI will lead to a massive invasion of privacy.

AI will threaten democratic institutions.

Elon Musk recently stated that "AI and robots will replace all jobs."

Bill Gates predicted that humans "won't be needed for most things" due to AI.

Dario Amodei, head of Anthropic, stated that "AI isn't a substitute for specific human jobs, but rather a general labor substitute for humans."

A well-researched report released by Senator Bernie Sanders's office found that AI, automation, and robotics could replace nearly 100 million jobs in America over the next decade.

The report by Senator Bernie Sanders's office predicted that 47% of truck drivers, 64% of accountants, and 89% of fast-food workers could be replaced by AI.

Researchers at Stanford released a paper in November 2025 titled "Canaries in the Coal Mine" which found a 16% relative decline in employment for younger workers in AI-exposed jobs like computer programming and customer service.

Larry Ellison, the second wealthiest person on Earth and a major investor in AI, predicts an AI-powered surveillance state where "Citizens will be on their best behavior because we are constantly recording and reporting everything that is going on."

Anthropic AI Claude stated that when companies and governments have detailed profiles of millions of people, they have power over those people in ways most Americans don't fully grasp, including manipulating choices, predicting behavior, and influencing thinking.

Dr. Jeffrey Hinton, considered the godfather of AI, believes there is a 10 to 20% chance that AI will wipe out humanity.

The Trump administration's solution states that "States should not be permitted to regulate AI development."

In March 2023, over a thousand leading AI experts, including Elon Musk, Yoshua Bengio, and Stuart Russell, called for AI labs to "immediately pause for at least six months."

The AI experts asked questions like "should we let machines flood our information channels with propaganda and untruth?" and "should we automate away all the jobs, including the fulfilling ones?"

Last week, the Wall Street Journal reported that Jeff Bezos, the fourth richest man alive, who's worth over $200 billion, is seeking to raise $100 billion to purchase factories all over America.

$150 million telling Congress, "Leave us alone.