WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:00.591 AI: Tool for Turbo Profit and Maintaining Power of the Super-rich 00:00.591 --> 00:07.221 The Swiss radio and television station SRF1 reported on January 19, 2026: “The wealth of the world’s 00:07.221 --> 00:12.140 super-rich has never grown as fast as it did last year.” 00:12.140 --> 00:19.472 According to the latest Oxfam report, in numerical terms, this translates into a $2.5 trillion increase in wealth 00:19.472 --> 00:24.983 over the past year and total wealth of more than $18 trillion. 00:24.983 --> 00:31.460 "Since 2020, billionaires have become more than 80% richer. 00:31.460 --> 00:35.890 The twelve richest people in the world now have more money than the poorer half of the world's 00:35.890 --> 00:39.680 population—that is, a good four billion people." 00:39.680 --> 00:45.801 If you take a closer look at how this immense growth in wealth came about, you inevitably come across the 00:45.801 --> 00:52.288 rapid advancement of artificial intelligence, which is time and again sold to us as progress. 00:52.288 --> 00:59.046 It certainly means progress, but only for the wallets of the super-rich, while all of humanity is being steered 00:59.046 --> 01:03.980 toward a new, unprecedented crisis of “digital enslavement.” 01:03.980 --> 01:09.700 This broadcast explores the background of the issue and reveals who the major beneficiaries of AI are. 01:09.700 --> 01:13.920 Elon Musk—the first trillionaire in history 01:13.920 --> 01:22.433 Tech billionaire Elon Musk, a shareholder in Tesla, the news service X, xAI, SpaceX, and Neuralink, 01:22.433 --> 01:27.413 among others, is stepping up his AI initiatives. 01:27.413 --> 01:33.327 A new round of funding for his company, xAI, raised billions of U.S. dollars and is 01:33.327 --> 01:37.350 expected to advance his planned supercomputer. 01:37.350 --> 01:44.943 He wants to develop X into an “Everything App” that will combine communication, finance, and AI. 01:44.943 --> 01:51.745 Through SpaceX, he is focusing on reusable missiles, and through Neuralink on so-called brain-computer 01:51.745 --> 01:59.176 interfaces, with the aim of connecting humans and machines - in the spirit of the transhumanists. 01:59.176 --> 02:06.247 Elon Musk's wealth is based primarily on his equity stakes in Tesla and SpaceX, as well as on 02:06.247 --> 02:11.196 stock options and the appreciation of those stakes. 02:11.196 --> 02:20.880 According to the business magazine “Forbes,” his wealth was estimated at $195 billion as of April 2024. 02:20.880 --> 02:32.353 By June 2026, he had become the first trillionaire in history, with a fortune of over 1,000 billion U.S. dollars. 02:32.353 --> 02:37.706 Investments in AI are causing Mark Zuckerberg's wealth to skyrocket 02:37.706 --> 02:44.675 Mark Zuckerberg is the founder of the world's largest social media company, which includes Facebook, WhatsApp, 02:44.675 --> 02:49.183 Instagram, Threads, Messenger, and Meta Quest, among others. 02:49.183 --> 02:54.036 Since 2021, the company has been known as Meta Platforms. 02:54.036 --> 02:58.343 Workplace was discontinued in May 2026. 02:58.343 --> 03:06.703 Zuckerberg owns approximately 13% of Meta's shares, and his wealth increased by an estimated 03:06.703 --> 03:11.550 $20 billion between January 2025 and March 2026. 03:11.550 --> 03:19.783 This increase in value is primarily attributable to the rise in Meta's stock price due to massive investments in AI. 03:19.783 --> 03:25.003 So, with the Meta Group, the Facebook founder is relying heavily on artificial intelligence. 03:25.003 --> 03:30.063 His vision is to develop a “personal superintelligence” for every human. 03:30.063 --> 03:36.107 So-called AI agents, which can perform tasks autonomously , are designed to identify users' 03:36.107 --> 03:39.970 goals and work "day and night" to achieve them. 03:39.970 --> 03:48.040 Zuckerberg praises Meta's use of AI, which alone in the first quarter of 2025 encouraged 1,234,321 users to spend 03:48.040 --> 03:52.523 five to six percent more time on Facebook and Instagram. 03:52.523 --> 03:57.530 This shows just how much people are being influenced and driven into an ever-deepening addiction. 03:57.530 --> 04:07.424 People are already totally dependent on their smartphones. How much more would they rely on a personal AI friend? 04:07.424 --> 04:13.584 Larry Ellison: $100 billion in profits from AI 04:13.584 --> 04:21.664 Larry Ellison is the chairman and co-founder of the software giant Oracle, of which he owns about 40%. 04:21.664 --> 04:30.170 Ellison also owns nearly 50% of the media giant Paramount Skydance and has taken control of TikTok. 04:30.170 --> 04:38.039 In February 2026, his wealth was estimated at 222.7 billion U.S. dollars—approximately 100 04:38.039 --> 04:43.423 billion U.S. dollars more than in November 2024. 04:43.423 --> 04:50.900 His company, Oracle, provides AI firms with computing power worth a staggering 455 billion U.S. dollars and 04:50.900 --> 04:57.816 operates several data centers of its own equipped with thousands of rare graphics chips. 04:57.816 --> 05:02.836 Oracle also has a contract with OpenAI for the next five years. 05:02.836 --> 05:08.468 In addition, Oracle and Ellison are playing a key role in Stargate, a massive U.S. 05:08.468 --> 05:13.156 infrastructure project aimed at expanding AI data centers. 05:13.156 --> 05:22.116 You don't have to be a clairvoyant to predict that Ellison's fortune will continue to grow in the coming years. 05:22.116 --> 05:27.716 Amazon Cloud & AI Research – Billions in Profits for Jeff Bezos 05:27.716 --> 05:37.449 In December 2025, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos was the fourth-richest person in the world, with a net worth of $239.4 billion. 05:37.449 --> 05:43.328 As of early April 2024, he owned 1,234,321,194 billion U.S. dollars. 05:43.328 --> 05:52.796 The growth of his wealth is primarily attributable to massive investments in cloud infrastructure and AI applications. 05:52.796 --> 06:01.060 As a result, the trading volume of Amazon shares rose to $51.24 billion in 2025 alone. 06:01.060 --> 06:05.237 That represents a 26% increase over the previous year. 06:05.237 --> 06:12.744 With data centers around the world, Amazon Web Services (AWS) operates the most extensive global cloud infrastructure. 06:12.744 --> 06:16.297 It's not just large companies that use this service. 06:16.297 --> 06:23.564 Secret services also use the cloud to leverage data analysis and artificial intelligence for espionage. 06:23.564 --> 06:30.862 Amazon has announced that it will invest approximately $200 billion in artificial intelligence, 06:30.862 --> 06:35.803 cloud computing, robotics, and satellites by 2026. 06:35.803 --> 06:41.765 As a result, Jeff Bezos is positioning Amazon as the indispensable backbone of the global AI 06:41.765 --> 06:49.763 revolution—or, to put it more accurately, as a global player in the worldwide digital enslavement. 06:49.763 --> 06:51.430 Summary so far: 06:51.430 --> 06:56.184 Tech billionaires are investing massive sums in artificial intelligence and reaping enormous profits as a 06:56.184 --> 06:59.583 result, while the general public is becoming poorer. 06:59.583 --> 07:05.418 However, the general public is not entirely blameless in this decline, as many people use AI—often out of 07:05.418 --> 07:09.710 convenience—and thereby render themselves redundant. 07:09.710 --> 07:16.228 The development of a global digital infrastructure is driving people into a state of constant surveillance and dependence, 07:16.228 --> 07:20.680 the consequences of which are still completely unpredictable. 07:20.680 --> 07:23.340 But what is the solution? What should be done? 07:23.340 --> 07:29.490 For one thing, it is important to bring all kinds of AI crisis profiteers into the global spotlight. 07:29.490 --> 07:34.110 That's what "Vetopedia" is for—the free encyclopedia of dissenting opinions! 07:34.110 --> 07:41.104 Under “Crisis Profits,” you’ll find numerous facts that demonstrate how the puppet masters behind world events have 07:41.104 --> 07:45.496 reaped huge profits from all the crises of recent years. 07:45.496 --> 07:49.237 Crises do not just happen by chance; rather, they are deliberately orchestrated and 07:49.237 --> 07:51.929 exploited by those seeking to profit from them. 07:51.929 --> 07:54.789 That is exactly what the global public needs to be made aware of. 07:54.789 --> 08:02.843 You, too, can help in this effort to expose such practices by reporting any unjust crisis profits you become aware 08:02.843 --> 08:10.215 of at www.vetopedia.org under the “Crisis Profits” section and by spreading the word about “Vetopedia.” 08:10.215 --> 08:11.142 Thank you very much!