Artificial intelligence offers undeniable advantages in daily life, but is it really improving our existence as its main proponents claim? Recent events invite skepticism. On April 7, Anthropic launched the preliminary version of Claude Mythos, but rather than being an accessible tool for all, its access was restricted to large corporations like Apple, Google, Cisco, and Nvidia, under the Glasswing Project. This AI is so advanced that it can detect vulnerabilities in the systems of banks, companies, and official agencies, leaving European states dependent on American companies in an increasingly tense geopolitical context. In the early days of generative AI, big tech companies shared advancements with smaller firms, but that collaboration has vanished. Now, from Silicon Valley, these companies are conquering strategic sectors like energy, health, finance, and cybersecurity, displacing traditional leadership and concentrating power in the hands of tech oligarchs close to the U.S. political sphere. A recent example confirms this: Google, historically reluctant to collaborate with the military sector, has provided its AI models to the Pentagon for classified uses. Shortly after, the Department of Defense expanded these agreements to companies like xAI, OpenAI, Amazon, Microsoft, and Nvidia. Thus, big tech aligns with the White House, which supports the 22 points of the Palantir Manifesto, focused on social control and cybersecurity, often at the expense of democracy. Peter Thiel, CEO of Palantir, embodies this fusion of politics, technology, and deregulation, rejecting any limits on military and anti-democratic AI. This trend is already spreading to Europe, with contracts signed by the Defense Ministries of the UK and Spain. On the other hand, figures like Marc Andreessen, in his techno-optimist Manifesto, promote ideas close to Nick Land's dark accelerationism, which is opposed to liberal democracy. This scenario is further complicated by investments from petromonarchies like Sheikh Tahnoon and the citizen control model based on AI that already prevails in China. Meanwhile, Europe remains lagging behind and without its own AI alternative aligned with its democratic values. This paints a picture in which the old continent loses prominence in the global technological race. Source: elperiodicodearagon.com