The dangers of letting Big Tech control AI

Worse still, AI is not yet fully democratized and has remained largely the bastion of major tech companies. As it stands now, the vast majority of AI is being developed within the enormous black hole of a few major technology companies. The problems they are tackling, even if real and worthwhile, address just a tiny portion of AI's potential to impact the tech industry and the overall economy, not to mention humanity as a whole. These companies' control of the vast majority of talent, data, and other resources necessary to develop life-changing technologies is bad for any number of stakeholders who would otherwise stand to benefit from AI.