So There I Was

Hold My Beer

So there I was, red-teaming my own platform on a quiet Austin weekend, bricking it from the lowest permission level before a real idiot could. EY's new survey says autonomous AI is outrunning its minders: 98 percent have a governance policy, 47 percent toss it when a deadline gets hot, 85 percent of agentic systems act with no human watching in real time, and a quarter cannot even see the unauthorized agents already inside. The empty chair, now with a price tag. Fill it in the boring hours, or pay for it when everything is on fire.

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The Day After

So there I was, watching ABC's The Day After in 1983, the movie that put nuclear ruin in Reagan's living room and helped move him toward a treaty. Axios reports Anthropic and OpenAI are privately gaming out the public backlash after a catastrophic AI event their own people call close to inevitable. I am glad they are running the drill. It only works if they turn on the lights and let the rest of us watch, and if it finally fills the chair that has yet to be pulled up to the table.

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The Binder and the Floor

So there I was, declining a job over a chemical room with no safety sheets and a crew getting its briefing in the wrong language. The new LRN Code of Conduct Report finds the same gap at scale: 95 percent of employees certify they have read the code, only about one in four ever use it, and just 9 percent of codes say anything about AI. A code of conduct is the empty chair in paper form, worth exactly as much as the judgment somebody is actively applying on the floor.

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