This week the future of AI was rolled out in public — a rush of powerful new models from American and Chinese companies, one after another, with Europe and most of the world watching from the sidelines. In this segment we look forward, calmly, at what it means to be a spectator at the most important game of your life: how to keep your autonomy and your sense of authorship when the defining technology of the era is designed somewhere else, by people you’ll never meet and can’t vote for — and why staying a conscious user, rather than a passive one, is the sovereignty that still belongs to each of us.
