Don't Worry About the Terminator. Worry About David.
When people talk about AI ending badly, they reach for Skynet and the Terminator: a machine that wakes up and turns on us. I think the better warning is David, the android in Prometheus, who did harm because of what his maker set out to do and taught him to value. Mo Gawdat makes the same point: AI is a magnification of whatever humanity is. So responsibility is shared. The labs owe us broader data, tighter release discipline and a business model that doesn't make companies rent back their own intelligence. The rest of us owe ourselves something too: stop giving our data away, catalog it locally, and build our own ontology that compounds. Here's what that looked like for me this weekend, grading my own local AI by hand.
BLUF (bottom line up front): I’m just starting too. My data has lived in my Obsidian vault, my 2nd brain, for a while, but the practices around it were fragmented. They’re now coming together as a whole, and that whole complements, and at times runs ahead of, what I focus on at work: observability, accountability, governance and ownership. My rule for all of it: if you can’t see it, you can’t observe it; if you can’t observe it, you can’t measure it; if you…
