[tim333]

I don't think nationalising the AI labs is happening.

I agree the article is a bit odd. Alignment is mostly about making AI helpful and not wanting to kill people unless it's told to (https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidkirichenko/2026/05/12/ukra...).

The article is talking more about people like translators being replaced by AI translation. I don't think any of the labs have a department of making it worse so it can't do people's jobs.

The normal way of dealing with tech doing peoples jobs is to help them get different jobs. I've got a translator friend who did a government paid course to train as a tour guide - that sort of thing.

[renjimen]

Dario and Demis have called for nationalisation at some point. They know if AI reaches what they believe its potential to be, it needs to be democratically governed. It will upend the markets, but AI already threatens to do that. It feels like wishful thinking given how entrenched we are in neoliberalism, but it makes sense.

In the mean time there are various avenues of regulation and redistribution to lessen the effects, including retraining programs, though that job creation will keep pace with job losses is a big unknown.