Governance conversations like this matter — and I'd keep one thread visible: AI has no independent compass, it amplifies the one its operators bring. Commissions and policy are necessary but downstream; the first regulation is the self-knowledge of the people wielding it. Free book on that thru 6/3: amazon.com/dp/B0H3HY8W9F
In The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams joked that philosophers demanded “rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty” once a machine started producing answers. The modern AI panic has created the same economy. Vast numbers of academics, ethicists, and professional critics now make careers denouncing systems they scarcely understand, because alarmism pays better than technical competence and confusion is easier to sell than clarity.
Governance conversations like this matter — and I'd keep one thread visible: AI has no independent compass, it amplifies the one its operators bring. Commissions and policy are necessary but downstream; the first regulation is the self-knowledge of the people wielding it. Free book on that thru 6/3: amazon.com/dp/B0H3HY8W9F
In The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams joked that philosophers demanded “rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty” once a machine started producing answers. The modern AI panic has created the same economy. Vast numbers of academics, ethicists, and professional critics now make careers denouncing systems they scarcely understand, because alarmism pays better than technical competence and confusion is easier to sell than clarity.
https://jbsections.substack.com/p/academics-denouncing-aino-technical
Everything needs a measure of governance, but particularly when personal data is so readily accessed.