Empowerment or Exploitation: The Real Battle Behind AI

At the highest level of humanity, every age faces the same moral test — whether power will serve the many, or exploit them for the few.

Illustration by Riley Levine

By Trygve Olson

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the moment we’re living through — what it means, and what it will mean when the story of this era is written.

Over the past few months, I’ve been reading back through history —

The House of Morgan by Ron Chernow, 1929 by Andrew Ross Sorkin, Andrew Carnegie and The Chief by Da…