Ex-Google chief built 'oligarch-style empire' to influence AI, Biden White House

[Ptarmigan]

Ex-Google chief built 'oligarch-style empire' to influence AI, Biden White House and public policy: report
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/ex-google-chief-built-oligarch-style-empire-influence-ai-biden-white-house-public-policy-report

Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt has developed a vast network of strategic investments and political relationships that's allowed the tech billionaire to wield significant influence over artificial intelligence and public policy in Washington, D.C., according to an explosive new report.

The Bull Moose Project, a nonprofit advocacy group committed to developing "the next generation of America First leaders and policies," has spent months investigating Schmidt's financial disclosures, tax records, business documents and other publicly available information. On Thursday, the group released a report outlining its findings, first obtained by Fox News Digital.

"Americans don't want to believe that they live under 'the rule of the few,' rather than a democracy's 'rule of the many' – but this sobering report is a wake-up call that our elected representatives can't ignore," said Aiden Buzzetti, president of the Bull Moose Project. "What we've put together reinforces the puppet-master role that big tech's leaders play in the public's lives. All items in this database and report are backed by reputable, verifiable sources, and we plan to update this it regularly so that the public has access to Schmidt's dealings, even if government refuses to disclose them. Get ready for your mind to be blown."

According to the report, Schmidt has built an "oligarch-style empire designed to influence public policy."

Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt built an oligarch-style empire to control AI and government.

"We don't talk much about our secret work," said Schmidt. "But there's an analogous team that worked on the secret stuff that went through the secret process that has had similar impact."

The former Google chief also explained that the key to being successful in Washington is lobbying the White House.

"If I've learned anything from my years of dealing with the government, is the government is not run like a tech company. It's run top down," he said. "So, whether you like it or not, you have to start at the top, you have to get the right words, either they say it, or you write it for them, and you make it happen. Right? And that's how it really, really works."

The Bull Moose report notes that Schmidt and Innovation Endeavors, one of the venture capital firms he founded, made dozens of investments in AI companies while he was running the NSCAI, citing data from Crunchbase.

[Drafe Hoblin]

Lol, nothing gets the job done like metal and military-might.

Who took-down the golden throne of Ancient Rome?

I'd lay odds that Google/AI will end-up on TV-shows like Engineering Catastrophes or Abandoned Places.  Because those that are running the programs are soft.  And the programs themselves must contain built-in (or randomly occurring) flaws to sustain unpredictability against rival AI.  They can't figure-out how to do it.  Meanwhile, accounts like Hoax Eye have been in business for years, exposing AI-this 'n AI-that... and they're only getting smarter.