Sara Goudarzi
If it hadn’t already been apparent, Big Tech’s influence on, and integration with, governmental bodies and other sectors of society became abundantly clear this year. From Elon Musk’s DOGE team, which gained access to government databases that stored personal information of millions of people, to AI-assisted surveillance programs, to ambitions of overhauling the Federal Aviation Administration using Silicon Valley’s “move fast and break things” ethos, large technology corporations with enormous power and influence have permeated nearly every crevice of contemporary life.
In July, Forbes reported that with its $4 trillion market capitalization, the AI chip maker NVIDIA, a “less than 40,000-person company is now worth more than 97% of the world’s economies and all of the world’s military spending.” The total value of companies like Apple and Microsoft also exceed the GDP of many countries. The facts are concerning, but they also give citizens and leaders a chance to develop better policies and guardrails to protect societal and democratic values. Here are several pieces that explore, from various angles, the artificial intelligence revolution and the expanding influence of powerful technology companies.
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