Appreciate your contrarian investment lens on our civilisational challenges and critical focus on AI plays between US eyes on macro dominance and control through god like subservience through centralised AGI versus China dominance through manufacturing enablement.
With 20 strong years in enterprise cyber and governance-risk-compliance and 30 in agentic AI, I am excited about the emerging class of “sovereign AI platforms” that seem to mix AI transformative power, with practical issues of risk mitigation, cyber protection of sovereign political autonomy and hence rights to responsible freedom, coupled with privacy, data custodianship and the interplay of decentralised and centralised governance. This does not need to converge on global AI governance if we beat them at their own game with reality in place of megalomaniacal delusion.
As a cyber guy, i am always cognisant of the play between conditioning to control versus enable. Does a brake as control not more importantly enable us to safely drive faster?
The merging of these fields of cyber GRC and AI present the best opportunity for me to discover paths in the core issue of our evolution of political agency by AI to subsume our weak leaders and establish right balance between centralised macro and decentralised emergence.
There are even two classes of sovereign AI platform emerging that might be integrated for balance -
- nationalist macro variants such as we see with sovereign AI platforms of western and chinese governments at the poles, but also the likes of UAE and singapore in the middle, driven to protect and enable government to maintain independence in collaboration to progress top down values and economy in production of wealth
and
- libertarian micro variants such as we see sovereign AI platforms in beyond phone or even targeting concerned private enterprises, responding locally and bottom up to support collaboration of people and communities or concerned enterprises to conserve traditional humanistic values and economy in their production of wealth.
(Ed: sort of - definitions need more work)
Yet while this balance between nationalist and libertarian sovereign AI platforms might be a promising arena to discover dynamics at the level of collaborative economy enablement and agency protection, we might need wisdom in culture and philosophical framing of the evolution of our political agency to have any chance of maintaining progress attuned to reality and nurture something beautiful, good and true and avoiding further dystopic decline into ugly, evil, hallucinations. Another theme with resonance with your view. But this also calls for more work on philosophical-cultural-psychological-spiritual evaluation framing requiring integration with our sovereign AI platforms.
For me, America has the best and worst in culture and political agency - especially in balance between top down control and bottom up enablement of small busines - with the worst appearing to dominate in dystopic decline of culture wars and bankster-lawyer-threeletter coups. I see the best of American culture not expressed in the lens of your banksters at a macro investment level and cia tech giants but better expressed in more authentic side of the venture capital investment lens around startups. But because of decline, I welcome recent invitations to work as advisor with sovereign AI platform startups operating in the neutral middle ground globally with some at national level helping SE Asia governments integrate with UAE and Singapore sovereign AI platforms to develop their own sovereign AI platforms to enable local economy, but at same time engage with startups promoting regional mining-renewable economical development and libertarian sovereign AI platforms in west.
I guess I have a thesis that the neutral middle players is where we can best pivot in balanced civilisational resilience so would pivot in Se Asia then roll back to the west - from nationistic to libertarian. I guess I have another thesis that Se Asian culture has as yet unproven potential to nurture broader transcendental values like unity, harmony, balance, humility, service that complement the best of western libertarian values - but this is only partially subjectively substantiated by me so far in my work with their sovereign kings.
Asia does default to acceptance of subtler energies as my third tier of discovery in foundational research in bioelectrics in emergent intelligence and emergent beauty, goodness and truth as fittedness to reality and alternative to morality as technocratic control or abstract utilitarianism. Initially i aspire to use national sovereign AI platform work as stabler base to then fund looking at foundational biolectric emergence in regional agriculture and bioarchitecture as side projects- starting in oud production. So my current strategic preference or aspiration is to seek a civilisational pivot in applying the best of usa style investment capitalist lens on sovereign AI platforms startups across three tiers of nationist, libertarian and applied foundational research in the neutral space of asian collaborations and economical and philosophical- spiritual-cultural development.
Just my 2 cents , highly speculative, contrarian response to your stimulating contrarian perspective - but got interesting invitations to sovereign projects during recent silver pivot to reality and asian engineering and manufacturing drivers beyond banksters optics. The collapse of their empire in silver pivot seems to mirror core themes in my aspirations above. Hail silver the great redeemer and purifier to expose the crack in the matrix that lets the sun god gold shine in.
