AI and Urban Inequality? In Karen Hao’s award-winning "Empire of AI", 250 interviews reveal how tech giants gaslight the public by bankrolling researchers to silence critique. Hao exposes the exploitation of Kenyan laborers like Mophat Okinyi, who was paid pennies to filter 15,000 violent images monthly for ChatGPT. Despite Sam Altman’s dismissal, the book proves that true auditing requires looking at those paid the least, not the industry’s funded elite. The deeper issue is not just AI ethics, but AI-driven urban inequality. As AI wealth concentrates in a few global tech hubs, low-paid digital laborers in developing cities absorb the psychological and economic costs. The future of AI cities may ultimately be defined not by intelligence, but by how fairly AI-generated wealth is distributed. CityAI is exploring how AI and blockchain can help reduce these inequalities and expand access to value creation.

Americans are fighting back against inequality. Despite billionaires spending $156M against it & opposition from leaders of both parties, California’s 5% billionaire wealth tax is winning 48-41% in a new poll. Billionaires WILL pay their fair share. It begins in CA.

The RMS-AM-GM-HM Inequality For any positive real numbers x₁, x₂, …, xₙ: RMS ≥ AM ≥ GM ≥ HM with equality iff all the numbers are equal. This fundamental chain connects the Root Mean Square, Arithmetic Mean, Geometric Mean, and Harmonic Mean; a classic result in mathematics.

At a time of historic income and wealth inequality, we need leaders in Congress who stand with working families, not billionaires. We need leaders who will fight for Medicare for All and raise the minimum wage to a living wage. Ed Markey is that leader.