A fully loaded wooden cart moves with a quiet, heavy hum. The weight absorbs the shock. An empty one rattles. It bounces. It makes noise. My grandmother had a proverb for this: 빈수레가 요란하다. An empty cart rattles loudly. She deployed this phrase not as an insult, but as a diagnostic tool. The noise was…
June 2025. I had just joined Favorited, brought in to think about something most companies still weren’t taking seriously: what happens when your engineers start talking to machines that learn from everything you give them. A few months earlier, I’d been at a cybersecurity conference in New York. Not the marketing kind—the kind where the…
The Threshold Problem: Why the Best AI Safety Framework in the World Still Isn’t Enough
Shortly after midnight on September 26, 1983, warning sirens erupted inside a Soviet military bunker outside Moscow. On a bank of glowing monitors, the system reported the unthinkable: the United States had launched a nuclear strike. The alert came from a newly deployed early-warning satellite system designed to detect American launches within seconds. According to…
The Case for Structurally Independent AI Governance The Problem: We govern AI using election-cycle logic, but AI risk compounds on an engineering horizon. This structural mismatch makes catastrophe increasingly probable under current structures. The Solution: We must move beyond “bolted-on” political compliance and toward Structurally Independent Governance. This means an oversight body modeled after the…