Daily Note - Thursday, April 16th, 2026

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• Where Do We Go From Here?

The conclusion in the well-written, well-researched series on AI. Kyle demonstrates his systems level thinking by not focusing on the AI capabilities, but how those capabilities affect the systems in society at different levels. This aligns with my thoughts, fear, and hesitation with AI. No one is preparing for how AI affects our systems. Even if they were, we move slower at the system level than AI is currently moving. He compares AI to the automobile and the detrimental affects it had on American cities. I think this is a great analogy, but it took the car a long time to reshape the physical spaces. AI is threatening to reshape aspects of our society in months, not decades.

Where do we go from here? I don’t have a satisfactory answer, but I do agree with Kyle:

Refuse to insult your readers: think your own thoughts and write your own words. Call out people who send you slop. Flag ML hazards at work and with friends. Stop paying for ChatGPT at home, and convince your company not to sign a deal for Gemini. Form or join a labor union, and push back against management demands that you adopt Copilot—after all, it’s for entertainment purposes only. Call your members of Congress and demand aggressive regulation which holds ML companies responsible for their carbon and digital emissions. Advocate against tax breaks for ML datacenters. If you work at Anthropic, xAI, etc., you should think seriously about your role in making the future. To be frank, I think you should quit your job.