The dangers of AI lie in the AI Oligarchy, a powerful cabal of deformed characters, whose products are often slip-shod, but who truly believe they are the Gods of the Machine.… ~ilana
New essay is “E. Musk: The AI Oligarchy Needs More Scrutiny Than The Technology.” It appeared on LewRockwell.com, anti-state, anti-war, pro-market, at The Unz Review, and on ilana mercer’s FPV Resistance on Substack.
Excerpt:
FOR THE LUCKY ONES, “Black October,” the PHP code vulnerability that roiled cyberspace, might have begun with a slightly urgent tone in the otherwise scrupulous calm of a software engineer.
He or she would have sternly directed the fortunate individual, whose online universe they oversee, to a likewise careful, managed web-hosting service. There, the cybersecurity expert coders would have already implemented “the fix”—and would be hard at work fencing vulnerable websites in their charge. We hope.
The story would later go around that the vulnerability of PHP, a “general-purpose scripting language geared toward web development,” is a feature of 70 percent of websites worldwide. (The last word is probably a redundancy, but it works to stress the point.) That’s just how pervasive PHP is. If not patched, its vulnerability would allow unauthorized access to countless web systems.
Originally created by a Danish-Canadian, PHP was later “parsed” along the way, whatever than means in computer jargon, by two Israeli programmers. Since the word “paranoia” implies irrational distrust; feel free to come up with a better descriptor of my febrile thinking as to anything Israelis unleash on the world—no matter how long ago the Israeli segment of the PHP code was abandoned and ceased to be supported.
Reasonably or unreasonably, the PHP digital drama soon led to the question of AI (Artificial Intelligence) “run amok,” a risk that PHP software developers had deemed positively esoteric, before AI accelerated that risk.
Experts worried, reported the capable Krystal Ball, that this particular fix (“a patch”), just by way of an example, can be—promises to be—reverse engineered to hack, hack, hack. Scrupulously calm and understated herself, Ms. Ball is a former accountant with a degree in economics. She carries the Breaking Points podcast.
Consider: So munificent and beneficial an industry is AGI (Artificial General Intelligence) or AI (Artificial Intelligence)—that you had better start defending against its onslaught, if you know what’s good for you. That’s yet another conclusion to draw from the PHP digital drama.
One grim reality of the AI scam industry is simply that small business has fewer resources to divert toward digital fortification.
The too-big-to-fail principle is another feature of the AI oligarchic economy. Those most vulnerable to systemic software penetration, surmised Ms. Ball, will thus be the smaller outfits and organizations. Economic behemoths the state won’t let fail.
Hacked, hobbled in the workforce, or forced to pay: The little man or woman will be unduly marked for suffering in some way or another by the hot-air industry that is AI.
Prospective investors should certainly study Ron Unz’s distillation of the “industry’s stark financials,” which will likely see “top AI executives and investors retain much of their current wealth, amounting to billions or tens of billions of dollars, while foisting the trillions of dollars of looming financial losses upon the suffering American taxpayer.”
This is why Elon Musk, the face of the Deep Tech Oligarchy, has deigned, now-and-again, to disgorge a few foreboding words against AI. It’s a show and a sham for the benefit of the moron media and the Musk fanboys.
For example, the issue of labor vis-à-vis AI has gotten so bad that even the Wall Street Journal punched through Microsoft’s “offer to ‘buyout’ 60,000 employees.” The Journal implicated both Microsoft and David Ellison’s “entertainment conglomerate,” Skydance, in “trying to shed a lot of workers. Just don’t call it a layoff.”
Musk, for his part, has only just infused “about $1 billion” into Ellison junior’s Skydance company. David is the son of Oracle’s Larry Ellison, a billionaire who is beholden to the Israel Defense Forces (IDF). As its largest donor, supporter and promoter, the elder Ellison is heavily invested and vested in the IDF’s AI necro-technologies.
To that end, Ellison Senior successfully led a Trump-approved financial putsch on American media conglomerates—TikTok, Paramount, Warner Bros. Discovery, and others. The Ellison coup has curtailed, even criminalized, speech critical of Israel….
… READ the rest: “E. Musk: The AI Oligarchy Needs More Scrutiny Than The Technology“
©2026 ILANA MERCER
The Unz Review, November 2
LewRockwell.com, November 2
ilana mercer’s FPV Resistance, Substack, November 2
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Ilana Mercer, a widely published paleolibertarian author, essayist and theorist, has been writing up an anti-war, anti-woke storm since 1998, starting in Canada. On arriving in the US, in 2002, her weekly column was right away syndicated. Mercer’s national syndication fell through shortly after due to writing in strident opposition to the war in Iraq. ILANA is described as “a system-builder. Distilled, her modus operandi has been to methodically apply first principles to the day’s events.” She’s Jewish, grew up in Israel ages five to nineteen, and left, at 19, decades back, never to return. She had refused to serve in the IDF, Israel’s compulsory military. Ilana’s focus since October of 2023 has been the genocide. Because it’s our duty.
