“Will we still need humans?”
“For most things, no.”
— Bill Gates, 2025
The Original Quote
“People think, wow, this is a bit eerie.
It’s completely uncharted territory.
Will we still need humans?
— Ah, for most things, no.
Ah, you know, we’ll just…
We’ll make it work.
I mean…”
Bill Gates: The Architect of Dependency
Gates’ genius lies not in invention but in systematizing lock-in. His playbook since the 1980s:
- Acquire (MS-DOS, Navision, GitHub)
- Bundle (Windows with IE, Teams with Office)
- Close (Skype’s XMPP, Copilot’s training on Open Source)
- Replace (Humans with APIs)
“Every Microsoft ‘innovation’ is a tomb for autonomous action.”
Digital Enclosure: The New Commons Is Code
| Medieval Feudalism | 21st-Century Tech Feudalism |
|---|---|
| Common pasture | Open-source repositories |
| Enclosure by lords | Azure exclusivity deals |
| Serfdom | Copilot subscriptions |
GitHub Case Study:
- 2018: Acquired for $7.5B
- 2023: 80% of AI training data comes from public repos
- 2025: “Private” projects feed Microsoft’s models
“They take our commons—and sell us the rent.”
OpenAI: The Trojan Horse
- 2019: “Non-profit for safe AI”
- 2023: Microsoft invests $13B—exclusive Azure hosting
- 2025: GPT-7 runs only via Teams/Windows layers
The Lie in the Name:
“Open” AI trains on closed data, runs on closed infrastructure, delivers closed answers.
“A blackbox masquerading as a mirror.”
The Three Lies of the AI Revolution
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“Neutrality”
- Training data: 78% English, 92% Western (Stanford 2024)
- Censorship: Criticism of Microsoft partners gets terminated
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“Democratization”
- GPT-4 Turbo: $0.12 per 1k tokens (50× costlier than local LLMs)
- EU documents must first be parsed through Azure
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“Inevitability”
- 94% of AI studies funded by Big Tech (Nature 2025)
- Policymakers adopt tech lobby framing (“AI laws” = cloud mandates)
Exit Strategies (And How They’re Sabotaged)
| Alternative | Sabotage Tactics |
|---|---|
| Local LLMs | “Ethics” licenses |
| Decentralized infra | Patent lawsuits |
| Policy regulation | Lobbying ($26M/year spent) |
The Hard Truth:
“Who controls the cloud leaves no exit door.”
The Myth of Inevitability
“We’ll make it work.” — Gates
Technodeterminism as Ideology:
- AI narratives shaped by profit, not progress
- “Human obsolescence” is a business model, not destiny
“What’s sold as evolution is extraction.”
The Devil Wears Data Centers
Microsoft isn’t “evil”—it perfects structural coercion:
- From commons to cloud
- From agency to API
- From citizens to subscribers
“Your cognition is now a premium feature.”
elizaonsteroids.org Responds
We expose the facade:
- Who questions, controls the dialogue
- Who hosts, controls the answers
- Who profits, laughs at “neutrality”
“Humans don’t come with auto-updates.
That’s why they’re being deprecated.”