“The Tech Coup:" Expert Warns of Silicon Valley’s Influence on Washington | Amanpour and Company

While white nationalist are afraid of brown great replacement, AI & robots will replace them while removing human safety nets.

Finally,stop the Dark Enlightenment save Democracy

Criminal intent doesn’t necessarily indicate precision or accuracy in the case of Trump or Musk: noble claims can be announced publicly but that doesn’t prove genuine humane or beneficial intent for the governing of the U.S.. Project 2025 makes clear what is coming.

For all those who voted to trump and think he is working for them. Just look at who was inside this inauguration and everyone else was outside.

the two guys in the garage, Hewlett and Packard, who I worked for all through the 80's, were advocates of Eisenhowers admonition to beware the military industrial complex.
They even decided they didn't want to focus primarily on government/military contracts, because of Eisenhowers observations, but also because they knew those contracts came with surges and slacks which made it hard to provide stable employment to workers, so they diversified, though lots of our equipment was stuffed into Awacs planes and listening posts around the world.
We were even largely satisfied with not being unionized, because benefits were very good, until after Bill & Daves exit, we started building production lines for new products, only to pack rhem in shipping containers and ship them to Malaysia in the late 80's to keep profits up for Wall Street.
I will note that "Silicon Valley" was begun/built with manufacturing of HARDWARE, not Code.
Employees mostly had comfortable jobs, but not starting salaries of $150k for 22 year olds whose brains have not yet matured.

It's comical to associate Sam Altman (OpenAI's CEO) with the notion of "for the benefit of all humanity". His mentor Peter Thiel owns land in New Zealand roughly the size of lower Manhattan. In 2016, Sam Altman revealed to the New Yorker that he had an arrangement with Thiel whereby in the eventuality of some kind of systemic collapse of civilization scenario – synthetic virus breakout, rampaging AI, resource war between nuclear-armed states, so forth – they both get on a private jet and fly to Thiel's property in New Zealand.

The libertarian manifesto called "The Sovereign Individual: How to Survive and Thrive During the Collapse of the Welfare State" sheds a light into Thiel's motivation for acquiring his Kiwi hide out.

The book can roughly be broken down into the following sequence of propositions:

1) The democratic nation-state basically operates like a criminal cartel, forcing honest citizens to surrender large portions of their wealth to pay for stuff like roads and hospitals and schools.

2) The rise of the internet, and the advent of cryptocurrencies, will make it impossible for governments to intervene in private transactions and to tax incomes, thereby liberating individuals from the political protection racket of democracy.

3) The state will consequently become obsolete as a political entity.

4) Out of this wreckage will emerge a new global dispensation, in which a “cognitive elite” will rise to power and influence, as a class of sovereign individuals “commanding vastly greater resources” who will no longer be subject to the power of nation-states and will redesign governments to suit their ends.

I wonder who will be part of this rising "cognitive elite". You, me, Peter Thiel, Sam Altman, Elon Musk?

Our intelligence agencies have failed us for many years! How in the world could someone with the red flags& instability that Elon Musk has, get government defense contracts? Never heard anyone pushing back against it.

"while the policies are so controversial" --musk spamming nazi salutes meanwhile and no mention by pro-nazi corporate media--

Thank you so much, Ms Scaake;I believe democracy is fading.

US citizens definitely do seem 'PARALYZED' because they are so used to seeing this kind of events happening in other countries and now it is happening to US and they don't know what to do. Getting off the fence is hard to when you're so used to being on the fence for so long, you forget and fear the landing. Maybe the US citizens are waiting for better weather to go out on the streets to protest.

These CEOs donated substantial funds to the Obama, Biden, and Harris campaigns. The democrats relied heavily on them to control the 2020 election narrative. So why do the democrats change now? Because the CEOs are not as loyal as the democrats wanted them to be? The crux of what Trump has done is to give these CEO the opportunity to share the center stage. The CEOs are no longer controlling the country from the shadows. Even the most naive can now see they have been manipulating the country for quite some time. Thank Trump for your awakening. 😊 Maybe now you can stop using their products and help them achieve bankruptcy.

Has DOGE released their approach, guidelines, and areas of intertest (specifically) and are they documenting what information they come across and tap into? Is there a different model for private sector and public sector approach? What model are they basing their investigations and research on and have approaches past and present been vetted and by whom. Also, what were the results of findings and where are these findings archived for public access to be informed.

Very good interview, thank you

Great Interview

Interesting: IS not THE RICH AGAINST THE POOR, IS OUR RIGHTS OR FASCISM.

Who is this "expert"? And who made her an "expert"?

Many American tech workers become a street hobo due to can’t find job, while Silicon Valley tech firms keep flirting
H1b’s ass eagerly!

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So true that we've over romanticized tech companies and their role a la revenge of the nerds.

IMPORTANT!

should have had these conversations 20 years ago. it began in 1996. sec 230 and DCMA 1996 was the day democracy took heroin,

If EU is finding ways to fine all these tech companies .. then why is the USA not doing the same?

Europe is sad that it is not able to dictate 😂😂😂😂😂

I wonder if it is even possible to trust a government. In Europe we have strict GDPR legislation, but all you need are two monkeys and a group of idiots (it shouldn't even be half the population) and all your private data is there for the taking. Nobody can be trusted anymore. Besides... how far should you let democracy go if those democratic principles can lead to undermining democracy itself? The announcement of a democratic suicide story.

Why are you letting the red coat infiltrate?

Lets contrast the last 4 years of a coup against the American people who actually employ our own government. While I do not agree with everything this administration is doing, I am 100% behind our president who is finding billions of dollars in waste while we middle class get poorer and poorer and the dire needs of the disaster zones were being ignored and a myriad of other problems. The teach companies were paying off the democrats admin as well. They will fund whomever is in power thats the glaring truth. The majority of Americans are in favor of auditing our government. Please remember that our government structure is different from yours - we do not have a prime minister nor parliament. We the people have a republic and a bill of rights and we support the government being held accountable.

I'll bet it will be better than the Hollywood crowd that was running it

Silicon Valley is in the United States. I'm sorry it couldn't be located in the bottom of a volcano in India.

Great...
Well doing ongoing process...
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An outgrowth of the move to turn USA into a failed state without meaningful rules and morphing into criminal enterprise.

It was the Democrats' job to enforce the anti-monopoly laws and other regulations to prevent this. They have had every opportunity over the past 20 years to prevent this and have chosen to allow tech companies to amass too much wealth and power. As they point out, this is not a sudden, unexpected power grab. It's a deliberate choice by a corrupt DNC that takes corporate payoffs, just like the Republicans.

Do we really need an "expert" to realize what is going on and the potential consequences? Are we that stupid?... Oh... We elected a malignant narcissist convicted criminal to president of the largest economy and most powerful military in the world... Forget it... Yes, please educate us... Not that we are able to learn anything though. 😞

It’s too late. They’re going to tank the dollar and transition into crypto. It’s too late. Will these tech CEOs thrive? Absolutely not. America is a violent nation in the kind of unrest this will cause but it’s coming. It can’t be stopped at this point. We need to start vigilantly monitoring whether our debt is even being serviced.

Amazon isn't really tech sector. Jeff has his space company but Amazon as a commerical seller uses tech to sell and deliver goods but they are a retail company primarily

These companies became monopolies through patents and copyrights. They are intellectual monopolies. So much for free markets.

I AM NOT ELON MUSK. ELON MUSK IS NOT WHO I AM BECAUSE IT IS CONVENIENT FOR WAR CRIMINALS. IN MANY SORTS OF UNHOLY AND INEXPLICABLE WAYS, I AM INDIRECTLY ADVISED TO BE QUIET WHEN I AM SAYING NOTHING AS THINKING IS A ENTIRELY DIFFERENT THING. HOW MANY ARE TOO STUPID AND TOO CRIMINAL TO REALIZE THAT? EVEN THINKING ABOUT THINKING ABOUT HOW TO EXPLAIN TO MY OWN SELF HOW TO PROJECT THIS COHERENTLY IS VIOLATED BY THE NOW EVEN WORSE MOST PREMEDITATED WAR CRIMINALS. MY FINDING THAT MY DIRECTION WILL LEAD TO NOT ONLY NOWHERE, BUT FURTHER DOWN A MY OWN PARTICIPATION GOING DOWN A PATH THAT SHADOWY WAR CRIMINALS SET IS NOT LAZINESS!!!!!! I AM NOT A LABORATORY ANIMAL!!! I AM BEING SUBJECTED TO PSYCHOLOGICAL MUTILATION THAT NO LABORATORY ANIMAL WOULD BE CAPABLE OF SUFFERING. WHERE IS THE MILITARY RESPONSE THAT IS SUPPOSED TO BE PLACING I, RONALD AARON LOPEZ INTO A HELICOPTER AIRCRAFT DUE TO DOMESTIC LAW ENFORCEMENT ACTIVELY PERMITTING OR CARRYING OUT ACTS OF TERRORISM AND WAR CRIMES AGAINST I, RONALD AARON LOPEZ. 🆘️🆘️🆘️🆘️🆘️🆘️🆘️🆘️🆘️🆘️🆘️

Thank you ma'am, for your work. 👍👍👍

Evil Soros has a lot of influence

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MINDBOGGLING that the Expert(s) have already 😂 noticed.
THIS IS BEEN GOING ON FOR YEARS - AND THE 'EXPERTS' JUST FOUND OUT THAT THAT IS DANGEROUS.
FOR YEARS HUUUUUGE AMOUNTS OF MONEY BEEN GIVEN TO THOSE DANGEROUS FANATICAL RELIGIOUS REPUBLICANS - SO THEY CAN DESTROY EVERY LAST CHECK AND BALANCE , MORALS, CHARACTER AND SCRUPELS - SO THE PUPPETMASTERS FROM SILICON VALLEY CAN GET RICHER - WHILE EVERYBODY ELSE GETS POORER - AND THEREFORE MORE DEPENDING
LAUGHABLE - WHERE HAVE THOSE SO CALLED EXPERTS BEEN 🙄 ON VACATION 🤔
THE START TO DESTROY AMERICAS ( AND THE PLANETS ) DEMOCRACY AND FAIRNESS HAS BEEN YEARS AGO - AND DEMOCRATS AND 'EXPERTS' HAVE BEEN WATCHING - TWIRLING THEIR THUMBS AND CLOSING EYES AND EARS - AND MOST IMPORTANTLY - WETTING THEIR PANTS INSTEAD PUTTING THOSE CRIMINAL CROOKS AWAY
AND SUDDENLY THEY ARE ALL CRYING AND SHOUTING - DEMOCRACY - WE ARE A NATION OF LAWS ETC
USA - YOU ARE NO DEMOCRACY ANYMORE
YOU HAVE NO MORALS, NO SCRUPELS, NO BOUNDARIES AND ZERO CHARACTER ANYMORE🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮

The Democrat party also gave the Frankenstein tech oligarchs the unchecked wealth & unchecked power they have, as well as to the nation's critical dependency on their services.

We the people are the goverment not some corrupt corporate business

Very enlightening! Thank you!

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wow, the interviewer is a fascist

Ibm and the holocaust book should be a clarion cry that tech / computers are not democratically or humanely focused when unchecked eg. Hollerith ibms subsidiary assisted in prosecuting the death camp roundup.

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Begin by buying a copy of Your United States Constitution and read it, then read it again and again, learn what it means to you, your children, your grandchildren. …We Must Begin Again…..

There should be a strict " Chinese Wall " between business and Government.....lobbying with money is pure bribery....even in a ultra Capitalist system.....lobby with your arguments , your logic, your intellect, your evidence .....