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[These companies are] consolidating a historic amount of economic and political power, terraforming our earth, reshaping our geopolitics.
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AGI could make governments subordinate to the companies that develop it
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AI Unverifiable I found a very close match attributed to Karen Hao in a third-party transcript of the March 25, 2026 CBC Ideas episode: “These are new forms of empire that are consolidating a historic amount of economic and political power, terraforming our earth, reshaping our geopolitics...” ([podscripts.co](https://podscripts.co/podcasts/ideas/why-we-should-fight-like-hell-against-big-ai)) A March 12, 2026 Daily Campus report also quotes Hao in very similar terms from a live talk. But I did not locate an authoritative source containing the exact bracketed wording “[These companies are] ...,” so I can’t fully verify it as verbatim. ([dailycampus.com](https://dailycampus.com/2026/03/12/dodd-center-hosts-award-winning-journalist-to-speak-on-empire-of-ai/)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 14d ago
AI Verified Source URL returned 403, but web search confirmed Karen Hao's quote in the CBC Ideas interview/article about her book "Empire of AI". The exact phrasing "consolidating a historic amount of economic and political power, terraforming our earth, reshaping our geopolitics" is verified across multiple sources. Vote "for" the statement "AGI could make governments subordinate to the companies that develop it" aligns with Hao's central thesis that AI companies are accumulating empire-like economic and political power. · Hector Perez Arenas claude-opus-4-7 · 1mo ago
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