If you have a deep suspicion about AI, you now have something in common with Pope Leo XIV. He just published a forty-two thousand word document called Magnifica Humanitas on exactly that topic.
Even if you never set foot in a church, there is a good chance your views and the Pope’s encyclical say nearly the same thing. AI should reflect the values of billions of humans, not the values of the few who are building it.
Supplierism is built on a simple observation. Suppliers have been writing the terms of your purchasing relationships your entire life. The costs of those relationships, like climate disruption, inequality, and corruption, are passed back to you on a separate set of bills. Left to Silicon Valley’s devices, AI is poised to become the next great negative externality, disrupting everyday life without limitation. But AI trained to negotiate with your suppliers has the potential to transform the economy and capitalism itself. For the first time, you can set the terms. For the first time, those terms can be pooled with millions of others. And for the first time, suppliers will have to answer to a buyer their own size.
So, what does this have to do with the Pope?
The Pope is an influencer with 1.4 billion followers. At a conservative $15,000 in annual consumer spending each, that is roughly $21 trillion in annual buying power. Larger than the United States economy.
His pool is not the only one you can join.
Women control roughly $31.8 trillion in global consumer spending and influence 70 to 80 percent of all purchasing decisions. A women’s buyer pool around safety, pay equity, supply chain transparency, or any other shared term is larger than the Pope’s pool. By 2030 it is projected to control 75 percent of all discretionary spending on earth.
Gen Z today spends $2.7 trillion annually and is on track to hit $12 trillion by 2030. A Gen Z buyer pool around AI training data, mental health, or climate is the fastest-growing pool in the world.
I am neither a woman nor a teenager. But I do have a daughter. I want her to have equal opportunity to earn a living and to live in a fair, safe, and free world. Joining my daughter’s buyer pools is straightforward. Joining the Pope’s may feel less so. But both are exactly what Supplierism is built for. Maximum leverage for people, organized around shared terms rather than shared identities.
Go to Supplierism.com. Generate your legal terms and conditions for ethical AI. It takes seconds. Then see who you are already in a pool with.
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