Most AI assistants are designed around sessions, prompts and applications. Even when they gain memory, the basic relationship remains the same: you use a service owned by someone else, it sees fragments of your life, and it optimizes each interaction s…
When I posted about personal AIs here, two objections landed on the same spot from different directions: "How can an AI know you when you predict yourself badly?" — preferences are unstable and poorly structured, so there's no inner trut…
Suppose everyone has a personal AI that knows them well, and those agents negotiate on their behalf before decisions reach humans. Someone raised this objection to me and I haven't been able to answer it: Three providers can feel diverse to one per…
A while back I posted here asking whether personal AIs could make democracy continuous. The objection that stuck — u/Roodut's — wasn't about democracy at all. It was: whoever trains the base model, hosts the compute, pays the bills and ships th…
Assume a future where every human has a sovereign personal AI. Not a government AI. Not a party AI. Not a platform algorithm. A personal AI controlled by the citizen, built around their values, preferences, history, constraints, priorities, and decisio…
