I did not say exactly what I meant. So let me say it now. The danger of AI was never the technology. It is the power the technology inherited... We were not participants. We were inputs... We are the People... This is the fight for what money cannot buy. It is our fight for each other, and for our freedom. And it has already begun

What was done to Henrietta Lacks — the extraction without consent, the conversion of a person into a product, the accumulation of enormous wealth and power by institutions that acknowledged no obligation to the individual whose body made it possible — is not a historical anomaly. It is a template that is still running, at a scale and speed, but now to something even more intimate than cells.

Our data is being harvested. Our thoughts. Our languages. Our accumulated knowledge.