The Luxury of Discussion: AI, Power and the Illusion of Open Debate — Part 1

Last week, BBC News broadcast a discussion by a panel of experts centered on the question of AI technology’s impact on society. An entry in its AI Decoded series entitled, The end of data centres? Apple and Meta’s bet against the cloud, the discussion focused on the three models for accessing AI: closed source, open source and open weight. The experts reached no definitive conclusion about the future of data centers or the alternatives. Their concluding remarks raised what struck me as a complementary issue. I believe it’s the most fundamental of all. It concerns who should be trusted to make decisions that affect all of society. The fact that it was evoked but dismissed summarily troubled me. Eager to explore what was going on, I formulated a lengthy prompt that I submitted alternatively to Claude and DeepSeek. The style, tone and substance of the chatbots’ respective responses were very different. Let me begin by reproducing DeepSeek’s response.

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