io.net(@ionet):It sounds like the beginning of a joke. Gandalf and the Pope walk into an AI conference... Except it isn't a joke. The concentration of power among AI companies has become such a threat that even the Pope felt he needed to comment on it. And use a quote from Lord of the Rings to do it. But the problem isn't AI. It's that too few people control it. AI needs to move beyond @OpenAI , @AnthropicAI , @Google, and the like to become a force for the many, not the few. How do we get there? Affordable compute. Instant access. Open-source models. That's @ionet

2026.05.27 11:05

It sounds like the beginning of a joke. Gandalf and the Pope walk into an AI conference... Except it isn't a joke. The concentration of power among AI companies has become such a threat that even the Pope felt he needed to comment on it. And use a quote from Lord of the Rings to do it. But the problem isn't AI. It's that too few people control it. AI needs to move beyond @OpenAI , @AnthropicAI , @Google, and the like to become a force for the many, not the few. How do we get there? Affordable compute. Instant access. Open-source models. That's @ionet