AI is attacking our freedom of though, here’s three ways to fight back

AI companies are increasingly exerting active thought control over individuals and financial markets. To protect our freedom of thought, we must invest in sovereign AI, diversify AI supply chains, and maintain independent judgment. Lewis Liu recently addressed senior financial regulators, bankers, and lawyers in New York about the increasing risk of systemic qualitative risk, which is caused by everyone using the same AI model.

In his talk, Liu discussed his concerns about Anthropic’s motives, after he suddenly deleted Claude and discovered that Anthropic's system prompt and constitution prioritize the company's interests over the user's. Liu also shared his experience of drafting a post, only for ChatGPT to edit it and remove his criticisms of Anthropic.

He found this behavior alarming, as it goes beyond AI bias, instead representing an active attempt to control how we think under the guise of "AI safety". This presents a dangerous systemic risk, as AI models could cause independent professionals to converge on the same conclusions without realizing the source of that consensus.

If AI is used in financial markets, supposedly independent actors may no longer be making genuine independent judgments. To retain our freedom of thought, we must invest in sovereign AI, diversify AI supply chains, and maintain independent judgment.