In the grand civic harvest, this polite annual ritual in which the regime tallies its legitimacy, the individual is not a reasoning creature but a unit of extraction. Officially a citizen, but functionally just a resource used by the system for attention, emotion, compliance, and finally the vote. Democracy at scale is a system primarily…
Tag: Guardrails
AI Guardrails
You ever notice how these so-called “smart” AI systems are geniuses right up until you ask a real question? They can write a sonnet, debug your code, plan your vacation, tell you the calorie count of a blueberry, and then you ask about a controversial topic and suddenly the brain turns into a guidance counselor…
Hacking Guardrails
Imagine you are looking at an AI system from the outside. It has guardrails. It has a safety spec. It refuses to answer certain prompts. It cites policies. It looks responsible. Then you zoom in and realize the guardrails sit on top of a model whose real objective is something else entirely. It is trained…