AI is not sentient. It is not a person. It is not a ghost in a machine. It is Clippy with a GPU, Autocorrect with a venture capital fund, and a statistical prediction engine dressed up in Silicon Valley mythology.

And that distinction matters.

AI is not going to rise up and overthrow humanity. The people pushing AI are trying to. And they are sentient. They are people. They have names, bank accounts, political influence, and an alarming number of GPUs.

We do not have a *Rise of the Machines* scenario.

We have a *Rise of the Techbros* scenario.

And unlike Skynet, they can vote, lobby, exploit workers, dismantle regulations, and buy politicians.

The real threat isn't "artificial intelligence" (respectively: statistical word-arrangement). It's capitalism wielding "artificial intelligence" as another weapon to concentrate wealth, privatise knowledge, deskill labour, and turn human creativity into an extractive resource.

The machines aren't coming for us. Instead, the billionaires are already here, trying to make us pay rent on our own future.

But that future isn't theirs to own. We are not passive spectators in our own history. We can organise, resist, build alternatives, and reclaim the tools and knowledge that belong to us all.

The question isn't what machines will do to humanity. It's what we, as human beings, choose to do together. 🐙