Hi, I’m Smeet

Rights and liabilities are two sides of the same coin. For effective agents (machines and humans alike) in any society, rights are the carrots and liabilities are the sticks. You don’t get one without the other. This pairing governs how anyone with agency operates, and it should govern how we think about handing the reins to AI. Do you want to give it the rights to do our work? Everyone’s trying to figure out how much of their thinking can be outsourced to AI. You can err too far in either direction. But the fundamental question most people skip is a personal one: are you gaining more than you’re losing? ...