»I tend to think that most fears about A.I. are best under­stood as fears about cap­i­tal­ism.« When I read that line from Ted Chi­ang recent­ly, it land­ed because it pulls the mask off the mon­ster. A lot of what we call »fear of AI« is real­ly fear of incen­tives: who funds the sys­tems, who deploys them, who ben­e­fits when they scale, and who gets hurt when they fail.