In the past I’ve heard arguments presented to me about how AI will make my financial research and analysis obsolete in less than a year, but the missing factor those that arrive at this false conclusion fail to understand is the following: AI is being used by the Ruling Class establishment not to benefit our lives but as a tool to further subjugate and control us. My argument is not against the possibility that AI could used to produce a higher quality of life for us. It most likely could be. My argument is that the Ruling Class’s plan for AI is not aligned with any of our best interests. And this is why the value of my platforms, and the value of those that continue to speak truth to power in the financial industry will skyrocket due to the deployment of AI in the financial world and not plummet as many mistakenly believe.
Recently, NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden confirmed my beliefs about how the ruling class seeks to use AI against us by tweeting, "Do not ever trust @OpenAI ... You have been warned," after OpenAI’s appointment of Paul Nakasone, a former NSA director, and the longest-serving leader of the US Cyber Command and Chief of the Central Security Service to its board. Snowden’s concern for the direction OpenAI is heading is why he advocates that anyone that cares about freedom and privacy never buy an Apple iPhone (iPhone is integrating ChatGPT into its iOS, iPadOS and macOS, which makes famous podcaster Joe Rogan a massive hypocrite for his continuing praise of iPhones, just because they’re American made, despite Snowden’s loudly voiced disapproval of them for their numerous and worrisome privacy violation concerns, while Rogan continuously denigrates TikTok, likely because it’s Chinese, for the very same invasion of privacy issues). Perhaps, YouTube welcomed Rogan back to their platform because he completely buys into the non-intellectual and amoral argument that everything American companies do is righteous while everything Chinese companies do is awful even when both commit the exact same morally questionable offenses.
If you are undecided about whether Snowden, who leaked the NSA’s practice of repeatedly violating citizens’ privacy standards that should be 100% upheld in a free society, is a traitor or a hero, the conclusion about this matter becomes crystal clear if one judges his actions within a morally objective framework. Here are the indisputable facts about Snowden. He gave up his rights as a US citizen and a comfortable, plush life in Hawaii to expose immoral (and what should be illegal) practices of a US “security” agency and leaked thousands of documents that indisputably exposed the US Director of National Intelligence, James Clapper, as a repeated liar before US Congress in his testimony about levels of criminal surveillance being conducted on non-criminal US citizens that should have earned Clapper a lengthy prison sentence (but of course, did not). If we use an objective moral framework in which lying about privacy invasion issues and concealing immoral, illegal surveillance tactics on non-criminal citizens is wrong, and the exposure of immoral crimes and liars is righteous, then there should be zero question that Snowden is a hero. Only those that have no objective moral framework by which they live would judge Snowden to be a traitor, and I will always stand by this assessment no matter how much pushback I receive about this opinion.
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