Global revenue for AI products and services is expected to increase 56-fold, from $644 million in 2016 to $36 billion in 2025. The science required to exploit this vast opportunity and the material infrastructure that makes it possible have ignited an arms race among tech companies for the 10,000 or so professionals on the planet who know how to wield the technologies of machine intelligence to coax knowledge from an otherwise cacophonous data continent. Google/Alphabet is the most aggressive acquirer of AI technology and talent. [..]. As one scholar described it, "The real problem is these people are not dispersed throughout society. The intellect and expertise is concentrated in a small number of companies."

— The Age of Surveillance Capitalism by Shoshana Zuboff (22%)