News Summary

• As the growth of artificial intelligence accelerates, it is already posing significant challenges to society.
• Yet, today’s dominant AI policy conversations are rarely grounded in these immediate challenges.
• Instead, the global discourse has been swept by apocalyptic prophecies.
• The public panic is being weaponised to enforce a modern regime of digital colonisation – the concentration of power in the hands of a few AI corporations in a handful of countries.
• The doomsday narrative provides the perfect justification for regulations that would target open-source AI models.