How AI shifts power in the real world

Power shift: hiring algorithms rank applicants and manage schedules, turning prediction into gatekeeping for employers.

Power shift: AI chats personalize political persuasion, letting whoever controls the system steer voters.

Power shift: Dutch childcare fraud systems misjudged more than 26,000 families, turning surveillance into institutional control.

Power shift: autonomous weapons can select targets and apply force, shifting life and death choices away from humans.

Power shift: control of data, compute, expertise, and energy lets a few actors set AI objectives and capture leverage.