🛡 How AI Can Manipulate Us
Roger Simon explores the mechanisms of ideological influence in modern AI models. The central thesis is that massive investments from Middle Eastern sovereign wealth funds (Saudi Arabia — $36.2 billion, Qatar — $20 billion, UAE via MGX) could define the cultural and political vectors of technological development through a tactic of "apparent neutrality."
🌍 The growing dependence of AI developers on capital from regions with different value systems creates risks of systemic bias in model architectures and training data.
👤 Understanding that AI is a product with a specific financial and political background helps in critically evaluating the "neutral" responses of models to sensitive questions.
Source 1: https://americanrefugees.substack.com/p/how-much-is-ai-manipulating-us