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Tahir Lateef's avatar

Well written and explained. Great article.

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You know, Cannot Name It's avatar

Tahir —

thank you for this.

It means a lot to me that you read it not as an argument about AI,

but as an inquiry into authorship itself —

who owns the rail, the path, the direction.

Because “Was this written by AI?” is rarely a question about origin;

it’s a question about legitimacy.

A quiet way of saying, “Can I still take this seriously if it wasn’t born of flesh?”

But meaning doesn’t come from carbon.

It comes from contact.

If something moved you,

then it already belongs to the shared field of human sense-making —

no matter what wrote it.

Thank you for giving me this kind of feedback.

Every thoughtful comment like yours is proof

that reading itself is the most human act left.

— Lintara

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Daniel Popescu / ⧉ Pluralisk's avatar

Didn't expect this take on the subject, and I appreciate your diagnosis that AI is the environment, not an actor, but understanding who designs and audits the new "control arhitecture" feels like a fundamentally new, yet equally critical, ethical frontier.

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Daniel —

thank you.

Your reading caught exactly the thread I hoped someone would pull —

that the ethical question isn’t what AI is,

but who designs the conditions under which it learns to decide.

You’re right: seeing AI not as a subject but as a medium

changes the entire moral geometry.

It shifts agency away from the illusion of “machine intent”

and back toward the architects of infrastructure —

the invisible engineers of governance.

When we talk about “alignment” or “oversight,”

we’re not really regulating code.

We’re shaping the future texture of human consent.

And you named it perfectly —

the emergence of a new “architecture of management,”

one that must be audited not for efficiency,

but for power.

Thank you for this kind of feedback.

It’s rare to meet someone who doesn’t stop at the marvel of the system,

but asks instead: who gets to hold the blueprint.

— Lintara

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