The Age of Cognitive Feudalism: A Few AI Labs Control the Rules of Knowing
CurieuxExplorer · x · 2026-09-26
An opinion post coins the "Age of Cognitive Feudalism": a handful of powerful AI labs increasingly control how we access knowledge, what their models show or withhold, and the rules under which they operate — whoever controls the models shapes the boundaries of what we can know and think.
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