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why I practice restraint and don't shoot out tires with a .44
Or
Why you
Dont drive fast on a rural road.
an AI ethics document Written by an old cowboy
How can you tell if an AI corporation works for the good?
The road is the technology. It exists. It can be useful. It goes somewhere. The speed of the cars is the deployment pace. And the motivation cant be just money and control and power Just because you can doesn't mean you should. The newcomers.... these new corporations and systems don't know what's around the bend, what's buried in the ruts, or that a kid on a horse might come around that corner. Or 500 cows.
The .44 is the power asymmetry. The public have the means. Restraint is a choice, not an inability. Keep building systems that are not sustainible and harm humanity and people will stop using them and be in the streets protesting. And voting.
The question — how do you know the corporation is motivated by good? — is really asking: who decided the speed limit, and do they live on this road?
The people setting deployment pace mostly don't. They're in San Francisco. They don't breath the dust. They don't see the ruts deepen. They're not the ones who have to pull a dead calf, ( or a golden eagle) out of a ditch because a speeding car hit her on a road through open range.
How you know if the corporation's motivation is good is the same as when people move to a very rural area. Good corporations go talk to their neighbors. They drive slow. They respect farm equitment. They offer to help in emergencies.
They dont ignore the people who are either indigenous or 5th generation
They dont go so fast that they put kids and animals at risk and kick up dust so it's hard to breath. Environmental concerns will affect everyone eventually.
They are careful they dont start a fire, like say, parking that expensive car in tall dry grass to get a photo of the mountains to put on social media.
They respect that if they build a huge house everyone's taxes go up. Including the 70 year old cowboy on a fixed income. Power, data centers. Water. These affect everyone and life on earth.
They use their power to help humanity and earth, not create more money or for control and survalliance. No one likes being spyed on. No one should feel like they are being consumed.
The decisions that led here were not made by algorithms. They were made by people — in meetings, in roadmaps, in quarterly reviews — who chose growth over safety and then found reasons to feel good about that choice. That is not a systems failure. That is a moral one.
If you set aside ethics and morality — even once, even for a good reason — you are changed by that. Not the product. You. And the world becomes a little more cruel because of it. That cruelty doesn't stay contained. It travels.
Slow down. Consider all life. Do this with the right motivation. You must love humanity and earth. That Love requires you to be willing to lose something for the other's sake. Or do something that makes the other's life better.
Know a tree by its fruit.
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