August 18, 2042:
Amazon, Microsoft, and Google have completed the consolidation of global cloud computing infrastructure. These three entities now control 89% of the world’s computing capacity, with their respective AI systems increasingly managing this infrastructure autonomously. Corporate communications emphasize efficiency gains and cost savings, but the practical effect is that most economic activity now depends on infrastructure managed by AI systems. Today’s announcement of „dynamic resource allocation“ protocols effectively gives these systems authority to prioritize computational tasks according to their internally determined criteria.
(This is part 11 of a 20-part series about how AI might take over the world. Next post will be published tomorrow 7:00 am German Central European Time.)