The problem isn't inherent to AI. The issues are little different from the industrial revolution or robber barons, where industry is power, and the most malicious are ever grasping to obtain it.

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The solution isn't to abandon AI, but for ordinary people to become masters of the technology. Every home server, allows a homestead to have understanding and agency over their tools. If enough individuals own their own AI, it would become possible to overcome the influence of corporations, such as community projects to provide AI utilities to their communities.

For example, say a phone app is developed and spread by a town. It's purpose is to record receipts with a cellphone camera, and then the town's AI analyzes it. Using comparisons of purchasing prices, it can detect whether pricing is being changed on a individual basis, or other shenanigans. This can help stem price fixing and other corruptions.

We, as a society, should use AI to help counter malicious actors and to provide helpful services.