AI RESEARCH
Big AI is accelerating the metacrisis: What can we do?
arXiv CS.AI
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ArXi:2512.24863v2 Announce Type: replace-cross The world is in the grip of ecological, meaning, and language crises that are converging into a metacrisis. Big AI is accelerating them all. LLM engineering sits at the core. Despite the public good motives of language engineers and the promise of LLMs, this work is being leveraged to create unprecedented wealth and power for a handful of individuals and corporations while causing existential harm to life on earth.