Bruce Fenton: AI's only path to killing billions is centralized power, not the tech itself
ccerrato147 · x · 2026-09-27
Investor Bruce Fenton argues AI could indeed kill a billion people—but almost only if it ends up centralized under a handful of governments and corporations. His takeaway: the imperative isn't to stop or regulate AI, but to keep the power to build it distributed and in the hands of people, not rulers.
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