AI investments, domestically and abroad, are supported by a federal government intent on the idea of AI dominance. The US AI Action Plan has signaled that any limitations placed on tech companies, including those addressing harms to workers, would be deemed an impediment to innovation, instead opting for industry-led self-regulation, a tightening fusion between public institutions and private sector tech companies. [...]

At the 2026 World Economic Forum, Alex Karp, the CEO of Palantir, asserted that advances in AI would eliminate the need for most immigration to the US. Nvidia’s CEO Jensen Huang echoed this sentiment, stating that “AI immigrants” (as opposed to actual immigrants) were the solution to labor shortages in industries like manufacturing and health care. [...]

https://datasociety.net/library/last-place-in-the-ai-first-economy/

Reading "Last Place in the AI-First Economy"
via: https://labor.dair-institute.org/

The only reason that you would set an amount of wealth that is impossible to recoup on fire to force a technology is if you are assured that you are too big to fail. That the project of gutting labor power, dissolving the capacity for people to make sense and organize together, and concentrating information itself into so few hands could be so stupendously extractive that it renders all the wealth accumulated so far irrelevant.