David Friedberg: “AI is the new lightning rod for fear and divisiveness that ultimately breeds compliance and control.” “Peter Thiel said this best. He's like, ‘Look at all the money that's going into AI, there's really only one company that's making any money, and that's Nvidia.’” “Like at this point, the jury's still out. We don't even know what AI is.” “It's sort of like when the internet was happening, everyone thought these fiber optic switch companies were going to make all the money.” “Turns out that was wrong. It was the end applications that made all the money.” “And they competed in many different markets. from Google, to Amazon, to Uber.” “You can go down the list of all the beneficiaries of the core infrastructure technology of the internet that was built out.” “So what is really going on?” Well, AI is the new lightning rod for fear and for divisiveness that ultimately breeds compliance and control.” “Which is where these politicians are trying to drive the populace and the voting conditions in the United States.” “And that's what's going on right now.” “There's a lot of fear about, ‘Putting this data center in my town is gonna do X or Y or Z,’ with no real conversation about the truth of that matter.” “There's a lot of fear about wealth creation being aggregated in the hands of a few when as we saw with the internet, it benefited the many.” “And that fear mongering is a very similar tactic that we've seen in the prior generations where policies were misstated, fear was used, and then voting control allowed folks to come to power that were looking for power.” “So I think it's just the lightning rod at the moment.”