AI development is concentrated in approximately six organizations, creating a new feudal structure where access to intelligence replaces access to land as the basis for extraction. The only path away from this new feudalism runs through genuinely open source AI, but the historical pattern suggests that technological revolutions deliver new forms of control rather than liberation. The outcome depends on whether distributed alternatives can be built before the window of opportunity closes.

Dawkins and Dennett’s evolutionary lens reveals the true danger of AI: not the machines, but human nature itself. With six corporations steering the human-AI merge, our ancient drives toward greed and tribalism make feudal capture nearly inevitable unless we build decentralized alternatives before the window closes.