President Biden delivers his farewell address to the nation from the White House. President Biden warned in his farewell speech of an "ultra-wealthy" "oligarchy" posing a threat to America as big tech CEOs have been warming up to President-elect Trump in recent months -- despite his own administration accepting donations from Democratic mega-donors. Biden spoke Wednesday as reports emerged this week that Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and Mark Zuckerberg – the three most wealthy people in the world who collectively are worth more than 850 billion, according to Forbes – will be seated next to Trump's Cabinet picks and elected officials next Monday at his inauguration. "I have no doubt that America is in a position to continue to succeed. That's why in my farewell address tonight, I want to warn the country of some things that give me great concern. And the dangerous consequences if their abuse of power is left unchecked," Biden said from the Oval Office.

President Biden delivers his farewell address to the nation from the White House. President Biden warned in his farewell speech of an "ultra-wealthy" "oligarchy" posing a threat to America as big tech CEOS have been warming up to President-elect Trump in recent months. Biden spoke Wednesday as reports emerged this week that Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and Mark Zuckerberg – the three most wealthy people in the world who collectively are worth more than 850 billion, according to Forbes – will be seated next to Trump's cabinet picks and elected officials next Monday at his inauguration. "I have no doubt that America is in a position to continue to succeed. That's why in my farewell address tonight, I want to warn the country of some things that give me great concern. And the dangerous consequences if their abuse of power is left unchecked," Biden said from the Oval Office.

The tech giant says the aim is to allow humans to have natural conversations with computers. With unending revelations of privacy-related data abuses by Silicon Valley's largest and farthest reaching companies – even Apple CEO Tim Cook is calling for reform – we must acknowledge there is far more at stake than simply individual privacy and data. Big Tech's immoral and unethical behavior regarding your privacy will be a mere annoyance when compared to their ungoverned and reckless forays into artificial intelligence. The troubling reality is that there is a deeply disconcerting lack of transparency and accountability as extremely wealthy, powerful, self-interested people – looking no further than adding many more billions of dollars to their personal balance sheets – are making decisions that will affect a great many of us. More disturbing still is the fact that in many cases they are envisioning a future that most Americans do not desire and for which we remain woefully unprepared.

Popular literature is replete with scary renditions of Artificial Intelligence. Numerous articles, stories, and novels depict an Eeeeeeeevil AI taking over the world to the detriment of humanity. . From my perspective it appears that all of HollyWeird and most of the legacy publishers to include the Hugo wanna-bes have bought into this meme. The world is doomed if we let the evil machine overlords take over. . I suggest that we have been in a war with a form of artificial intelligence since shortly after the Agricultural Revolution. .