Ramez Naam: power concentration is the biggest AI risk, plural AI makes us safer
sebkrier · x · 2026-11-04
In a conversation with saiinc, author Ramez Naam defends "plural AI" — the broad dissemination and democratization of AI capabilities. He argues the greatest AI risk is concentration of power, not capability spread: a world of many AIs provides distributed defense and mutual checks that monopoly cannot. The discussion covers competition among models, the role of open models, and what evidence would change his mind.
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