By Futurist Thomas Frey
The Rage That Builds Dangerous Tools
You lost your job to AI. Then your savings evaporated when AI-managed hedge funds crashed markets you didn’t understand. Your skills became worthless overnight when AI could do your work better, faster, cheaper. Meanwhile, the people who owned the AI companies became trillionaires. The system that promised technology would lift everyone up instead concentrated wealth so dramatically that you can’t afford rent in the city where you used to have a career.
You’re not alone. By 2030, tens of millions will share your story—economically displaced by the same AI systems that made a tiny elite unfathomably wealthy. And some of those people, the ones with technical skills and nothing left to lose, will do what desperate people with technical capabilities have always done: they’ll weaponize the tools that destroyed them and turn them against the people they blame.
The dark web AI revolution is coming. Not coordinated, not organized, but erupting spontaneously wherever rage meets capability meets opportunity. And the elite who thought AI would only consolidate their power are catastrophically unprepared for what happens when that same technology gets weaponized by people who have nothing left to lose.
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