Platform Pitch: Superintelligence as Empowerment

Major platform companies will publicly frame advanced AI as a tool for individual self‑empowerment (personal assistants on wearable devices) to shape public opinion, regulatory responses, and product adoption. The framing competes with an alternative narrative — centralized automation that replaces large swaths of work — and is paired with warnings about safety and selective openness to influence policy. — This framing matters because it directs regulatory focus (privacy, device control, open‑source policy), shapes labor politics (dole vs. augmentation), and signals where platform power will concentrate (wearables and continuous context capture).