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Jesse

@jessemerle.bsky.social
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Lawyer who likes stakeholder governance and wants to help people understand corporate law. In house. On boards. Use to teach at Berkeley Law School.

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Jesse @jessemerle.bsky.social · 5h
I 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.
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Jesse @jessemerle.bsky.social · 7h
In 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!
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Jesse @jessemerle.bsky.social · 8h
I 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.
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Jesse @jessemerle.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
“I see a path” is such a funny phrase
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Jesse @jessemerle.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Good thing it’s a public benefit corporation :)
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Jesse @jessemerle.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
No
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Jesse @jessemerle.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
OpenAI slop comes for all disciplines
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Jesse @jessemerle.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Real sellout
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Jesse @jessemerle.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Not “colluding” but “partnering”
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Jesse @jessemerle.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Cool! Tho I hope they’re grumpier than this kind-looking man in the photo
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Jesse @jessemerle.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Hitting hard on that Yud
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Jesse @jessemerle.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
But it’s a “public benefit” corporation
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Jesse @jessemerle.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
🗣️ Focus on corporate governance
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Jesse @jessemerle.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Last day to give comments!
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Jesse @jessemerle.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Yes!
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Jesse @jessemerle.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
People are starting to pay attention to the “novel” fiduciary duty issues :)
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Jesse @jessemerle.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Very conservative!
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Jesse @jessemerle.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Everyone 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.org
Not For Private Gain
We 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...
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Jesse @jessemerle.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
It’s just that this technology and worldview seem to be built on such a limited conception of human culture
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Jesse @jessemerle.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
In 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…
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Jesse @jessemerle.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Oooh yeah well ok then bsky.app/profile/thed...
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Jesse @jessemerle.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Not sure what’s so confusing… it says “public benefit” right there in the name!
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Jesse @jessemerle.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Noice!
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Jesse @jessemerle.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
It’s turtles all the way down!
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Jesse @jessemerle.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
There 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!
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Jesse @jessemerle.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The 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…
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Jesse @jessemerle.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
We need more anthropologists rn
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Jesse @jessemerle.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
May get to see you at an Emerson event ;)
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Jesse @jessemerle.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
It’s so funny to me that all these tech guys cosplay as sociology professors
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Jesse @jessemerle.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
What benefits tho?
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Jesse @jessemerle.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Extra special for anyone who knows about Berkeley Law and the AI labs
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Jesse @jessemerle.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Can this be real?
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Jesse @jessemerle.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
“…and that is healthy for the country from our Administration’s perspective”
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Jesse @jessemerle.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
We need to focus on corporate governance because it is grounding
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Jesse @jessemerle.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Some necessarily dark humor on the fraternity rape permission structure
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Jesse @jessemerle.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Beware the misleading data charts…
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Jesse @jessemerle.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Tbf ifs more of a tax-exempt charitable purpose than OpenAI Foundation has
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Jesse @jessemerle.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The seed round jokes are endless
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Jesse @jessemerle.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This is a brutal insult in Japan nj
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Jesse @jessemerle.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Not just a Cornell and Stanford problem
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Jesse @jessemerle.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Enter the public benefit corporation …
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Jesse @jessemerle.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I don’t get it. What don’t people understand, it says “public benefit” right there in the name?
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Jesse @jessemerle.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Public benefit corporations have different fiduciary duties, maybe we should understand them?
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Jesse @jessemerle.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Court not pleased
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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.“
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Jesse @jessemerle.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Pod 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.com
Impeach Pete Hegseth?
Podcast Episode · Pod Save America · September 29 · 50m
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Jesse @jessemerle.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
lol someone was going to do it but I wasn’t betting on Florida Man
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Jesse @jessemerle.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
they already have a trust bsky.app/profile/jess...
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Jesse @jessemerle.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I have so many questions …
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Jesse @jessemerle.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
What has changed from the Trust structure?
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