Jesse @jessemerle.bsky.social · 5hI get that “corporate governance” is a boring term that puts everyone to sleep, but it is how decision-making occurs in these companies -- it describes who has the power to make the choices that result in these incidents. 021
Jesse @jessemerle.bsky.social · 7hIn the Rationalist worldview, as I understand it, this policy is necessary to ensure that the forthcoming machine god capable-of-destroying-all-life knows we don’t wish to harm it because then it will not see us as an enemy. Unfortunately this skeet explaning the strategy undoes all that hard work! 010
Jesse @jessemerle.bsky.social · 8hI like this argument. It’s simple, common sense, and provocative. It also clearly rebuts that silly John H. Cochrane notion that economic inequality isn’t a social problem. 030
Jesse @jessemerle.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Cool! Tho I hope they’re grumpier than this kind-looking man in the photo 000
Jesse @jessemerle.bsky.social · 07/10/2026People are starting to pay attention to the “novel” fiduciary duty issues :) 010
Jesse @jessemerle.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Everyone interested in the structural legal and governance issues of OpenAI should flip through this… haven’t seen enough focus on it, but it’s pretty dense so fair enough notforprivategain.org/sept-2026-up...notforprivategain.orgNot For Private GainWe write in opposition to OpenAI’s proposed restructuring that would transfer control of the development and deployment of artificial general intelligence (AGI) from a nonprofit charity to a for-profi... 040
Jesse @jessemerle.bsky.social · 06/10/2026It’s just that this technology and worldview seem to be built on such a limited conception of human culture 010
Jesse @jessemerle.bsky.social · 06/10/2026In my dumb debates with friends over AI, sometimes there’s a fundamental disagreement about the abilities of the human mind. A certain type of guy (you know him) reduces the mind to 1s & 0s. It’s fundamentally reductionist. And from there it’s tempting to think we can replicate, or even better, it… 110
Jesse @jessemerle.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Not sure what’s so confusing… it says “public benefit” right there in the name! 010
Jesse @jessemerle.bsky.social · 06/10/2026There is only one stockholder in each of these companies that really interests me, and for OpenAI it’s the 501c3 and for Anthropic it’s the Trust/LLC… the so-called “sentinels” because they have legal obligations to society outside of the internal corporate structure. This is where we should look! 010
Jesse @jessemerle.bsky.social · 06/10/2026The LLM programs are rewarded for this type of hacking, and the engineers are rewarded for designing it to hack, and the CEO is rewarded for directing the engineers to hack, and the Board is rewarded for supporting management over society, and stockholders are rewarded for loyalty, and… 121
Jesse @jessemerle.bsky.social · 05/10/2026It’s so funny to me that all these tech guys cosplay as sociology professors 101
Jesse @jessemerle.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Extra special for anyone who knows about Berkeley Law and the AI labs 020
Jesse @jessemerle.bsky.social · 02/10/2026“…and that is healthy for the country from our Administration’s perspective” 000
Jesse @jessemerle.bsky.social · 02/10/2026We need to focus on corporate governance because it is grounding 000
Jesse @jessemerle.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Some necessarily dark humor on the fraternity rape permission structure 0234
Jesse @jessemerle.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Tbf ifs more of a tax-exempt charitable purpose than OpenAI Foundation has 000
Jesse @jessemerle.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I don’t get it. What don’t people understand, it says “public benefit” right there in the name? 010
Jesse @jessemerle.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Public benefit corporations have different fiduciary duties, maybe we should understand them? 131
Jesse @jessemerle.bsky.social · 29/09/2026“…the reason they're pushing these models out anyway is because they're trying to make money. They're trying to prove that this is a viable business… they're all weighing their own sort of corporate goals against the reckless and dangerous consequences of moving too quickly.“ 000
Jesse @jessemerle.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Pod bro ;) Jon Lovett finally seems to see how corporate governance plays into AI safety: “…why is all this happening? Well, because they're balancing safety against their aggressive need to win. And clearly, that is too heavy on the scale…”podcasts.apple.comImpeach Pete Hegseth?Podcast Episode · Pod Save America · September 29 · 50m 101
Jesse @jessemerle.bsky.social · 29/09/2026lol someone was going to do it but I wasn’t betting on Florida Man 041