Opinion

BLUF (bottom line up front): This weekend Satya Nadella published Models as Insider Risks in the Super Intelligence Era. His line: “The most trustworthy Super Intelligence system will not be the one with the model we trust most. It will be the one that enables us to trust the model the least.” I agree, and I didn’t have to start this weekend. On my own hardware and my own time I’ve been running that architecture for months, and I’ve been writing it up in public as I went. ...

BLUF (bottom line up front): I’m just starting too. My data has lived in my Obsidian vault, my 2nd brain, for a while, but the practices around it were fragmented. They’re now coming together as a whole, and that whole complements, and at times runs ahead of, what I focus on at work: observability, accountability, governance and ownership. My rule for all of it: if you can’t see it, you can’t observe it; if you can’t observe it, you can’t measure it; if you can’t measure it, you can’t improve on it; and if you can’t improve on it, you get left behind. Qui non proficit deficit. This post is that rule applied to AI: worry less about the Terminator and more about what we teach the machines, share the responsibility with the labs, and own your data. ...