Ms Lepore has stolen my heart with this piece

'In 2016, Sam Altman, the chief executive of OpenAI, read James Madison’s notes on the Constitutional Convention ... “We’re planning a way to allow wide swaths of the world to elect representatives to a new governance board,” Mr. Altman told The New Yorker. “Because if I weren’t in on this I’d be, like, ‘Why do these fuckers get to decide what happens to me?’” ... No such world-governance board was ever established. There has been no A.I. constitutional convention. These, er, fellows, are still deciding what happens to the rest of us'

#ai #onTheTake #theseAssholes #technology #postModernity

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/17/opinion/altman-ai-constiutional-convention.html?unlocked_article_code=1.nk8.ZSHK.L_tLKxLgBkRd&smid=url-share

Opinion | How We the People Lost Control of Our Lives, and How We Can Get It Back

Start with a constitutional convention.

The New York Times