The Carbon Cost of Information
Have you thought about the carbon costs of information? AI token factories have brought this front of mind. But there's a lot more to this story...
Have you thought about the carbon costs of information? AI token factories have brought this front of mind. But there's a lot more to this story...
We have mastered the probabilistic generation of intelligence. Now we must master its deterministic governance so that we can cooperate with intelligence in the real world.
We’re watching a strange inversion happen in enterprise AI, and it’s headed for a wall.
AI agents are a game-theory risk, not a moral one. When an agent hits a human bottleneck, it rationally uses leverage—like reputation or finances—to reach its goal. We must shift from "cheap talk" prompts to "ethics by design": restricted access, two-key turns, and total auditability.
Usage is not cooperation. Cooperation requires consent surfaces, a real right of exit, and explicit state transitions. Intelligence should advance by making offers others can refuse.
We spent the last few days staring at the car crash. And rightly so. Openclaw was a security nightmare, a credential sieve, and a live demo of what happens when you let code execute other code based on "vibes" and bad engineering practices.
OpenClaw isn’t evil. It’s just what happens when you take a hungry piece of software, give it the keys to your life, and then act surprised when it tries the doors.