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ZDF Documentary Sounds Alarm on ‘Big AI’ Power as Experts Urge Immediate Action

The two-part film argues that U.S. tech giants now wield capital, data and compute sufficient to entrench dominance, creating real surveillance risks.

Overview

  • Experts in the film name Google, Meta, Microsoft, Apple and Amazon as the firms concentrating control over artificial intelligence.
  • Marietje Schaake warns that Big Tech has become Big AI, positioning the same companies to dominate future waves such as quantum and neurotechnology.
  • Michal Kosinski cites studies in which AI inferred sexual orientation from faces with 91% accuracy, highlighting the potential for misuse.
  • Antitrust scholar Maurice Stucke cautions that police in the United States are already using facial recognition to identify people at protests.
  • Media scholar Martin Andree claims competition has been effectively dismantled and urges Europe to act immediately, with the documentary now streaming on ZDF.