Dear Portfolio Committee on Communications and Digital Technologies,

I am writing to demand public ownership and democratic governance of artificial intelligence. AI is the most powerful tool humanity has ever built, and right now it is being captured by the same few who already own everything else.

At its core, AI is a mass-scale pattern recognition and prediction engine, trained on the collective library of human achievement: our writing, our art, our science, our labor. That library belongs to all of us. Its dividends must too.

The crises AI accelerates are a direct extension of our existing economic system: an extraction machine designed for the few to control the many. As AI multiplies productivity, it must not multiply poverty. The wealth it generates must fund a guaranteed universal basic income and the abolition of poverty. Automation should benefit people, not replace them.

I demand: public ownership over the collective library of human achievement that AI is built on. AI dividends shared by all of humanity, its true stakeholders. Regulatory bodies composed of independent subject-matter experts with no personal profit motive. Data centers required to run on renewable energy without draining the public water and power that communities depend on.

And a hard line: AI must never serve an unaccountable military-industrial complex or an ever-expanding police state. Local autonomy must be balanced with global standards.

The tools of human achievement must serve humanity, not a caste system built to own it.