๐ Building Continuum - Chapter 22 โ AI and the Centralization Wave
Artificial intelligence amplifies existing infrastructure concentration. Training large-scale models requires capital, data aggregation, and specialized hardware โ conditions that naturally consolidate power. When AI inference is delivered exclusively via cloud APIs, access to cognition becomes mediated by identity and billing systems. This chapter explores how AI intensifies dependency dynamics, why the issue is structural rather than conspiratorial, and why identity portability becomes more critical as inference centralizes.
