{"id":83107,"date":"2026-05-29T10:03:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T14:03:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=83107"},"modified":"2026-05-29T10:03:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T14:03:15","slug":"ai-billionaires-brace-for-pitchforks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/ai-billionaires-brace-for-pitchforks\/","title":{"rendered":"AI Billionaires Brace For Pitchforks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <em>Axios<\/em>:<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"gtmContentClick\" href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2026\/01\/12\/ai-winners-wealth-inequality\" target=\"_self\" data-vars-link-text=\"America's billionaires\" data-vars-click-url=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2026\/01\/12\/ai-winners-wealth-inequality\" data-vars-content-id=\"3cfd8283-a8c4-4d55-9b47-29374f593162\" data-vars-headline=\"AI billionaires brace for pitchforks\" data-vars-event-category=\"story\" data-vars-sub-category=\"story\" data-vars-item=\"in_content_link\">America&#8217;s billionaires<\/a>\u00a0are developing their own prescriptions for AI-fueled inequality, anxious to defuse a populist revolt aimed at their ballooning fortunes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Why it matters:\u00a0<\/strong>The AI boom has dramatically raised the stakes of the wealth-tax debate, unleashing a technology that could\u00a0<a class=\"gtmContentClick\" href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2025\/05\/28\/ai-jobs-white-collar-unemployment-anthropic\" target=\"_self\" data-vars-link-text=\"wipe out millions of jobs\" data-vars-click-url=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2025\/05\/28\/ai-jobs-white-collar-unemployment-anthropic\" data-vars-content-id=\"3cfd8283-a8c4-4d55-9b47-29374f593162\" data-vars-headline=\"AI billionaires brace for pitchforks\" data-vars-event-category=\"story\" data-vars-sub-category=\"story\" data-vars-item=\"in_content_link\">wipe out millions of jobs<\/a> while minting the world&#8217;s first trillionaires. Populist politicians, particularly on the left, have cast this as <a class=\"gtmContentClick\" href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2026\/05\/25\/ai-profit-revolt-samsung-california-socialism\" target=\"_self\" data-vars-link-text=\"capitalism's next great reckoning\" data-vars-click-url=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2026\/05\/25\/ai-profit-revolt-samsung-california-socialism\" data-vars-content-id=\"3cfd8283-a8c4-4d55-9b47-29374f593162\" data-vars-headline=\"AI billionaires brace for pitchforks\" data-vars-event-category=\"story\" data-vars-sub-category=\"story\" data-vars-item=\"in_content_link\">capitalism&#8217;s next great reckoning<\/a>: an even deeper concentration of wealth and power in an economy already rigged for the elite. <strong>\u00a0<\/strong>Some of the richest men in tech have warned for years AI could destabilize the economy. Many suggest the answer is not deceleration or wealth taxes, but shared abundance.<\/p>\n<div class=\"gsp_post_data\" \r\n\t            data-post_type=\"post\" \r\n\t            data-cat=\"news\" \r\n\t            data-modified=\"120\"\r\n\t            data-created=\"1780048995\"\r\n\t            data-title=\"AI Billionaires Brace For Pitchforks\" \r\n\t            data-home=\"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Axios: America&#8217;s billionaires\u00a0are developing their own prescriptions for AI-fueled inequality, anxious to defuse a populist revolt aimed at their.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-83107","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83107"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83107\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83108,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83107\/revisions\/83108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}