Who manages the agents?

# Summary A emerging "technical clergy"—AI labs like OpenAI and Anthropic—controls frontier AI systems and decides which capabilities the public can access, positioning themselves as intermediaries between machine intelligence and humanity. While these leaders warn that AI will eliminate millions of jobs and propose solutions like universal income, they envision a future where most people passively receive decisions and products rather than actively directing AI themselves. An alternative path exists: distributing capable AI agents to billions of people so they can actively participate in directing intelligence rather than remaining passive recipients of decisions made by a small group.