Who controls the AI that is shaping your world?

What happens when artificial intelligence is subtly manipulative, when it's unaccountable in ways that truly matter to you?

• Imagine an algorithm deciding whether you receive life-saving care, but no one can explain why you were denied. 
• Visualize your child's education shaped by AI, limiting them from realizing their potential. 
• Imagine your fears, desires, and beliefs being used against you—with AI knowing exactly how to push your buttons.

These unsettling scenarios are not far-off fiction—they're realities in the runaway AI of today.

And it’s only going to get worse—unless people like us do something about it, starting today.

Because this isn’t just about technology—it’s about the people we love.

And if we don’t act now, they will be the ones who pay the price.

...left unchecked, it could also deepen injustice, further erode our ability to know who and what to trust, and strip meaning from our relationships—or even distort our very sense of self.

As we look both behind and ahead from the brink, it's imperative that we take a stand grounded in humility and wisdom—because responsible AI is not just about technology, it’s about who we choose to be.

Because really, what got us to where we are at our best?

We must actively engage, whatever our role or point in life’s journey, with the ethical complexities of AI in our daily lives. Hope isn’t passive—it’s the small choices, the daily actions that build a better future, step by step.

As we navigate these uncharted waters of what feels like an abyss, our ancient ways must connect and continue into the journey ahead.

What if AI wasn’t something to be controlled from above, but something that reflected who you are at your best—your deepest values, your faith, your love for those closest to you?

Could we make a world where AI isn’t about power and control, but about our deep human potential, meaningful relationships, even faith in action—not top-down, prideful engineering of outcomes?

But hope alone is not enough, and fear? Fear only leads to one thing—mutual destruction.

And there’s no way we can explain that to our families, can we?

🔥 …about the human responsibilities that come with AI.

This means insisting on more than transparency. It means rigorous, decentralized systems of trust—where accountability is wisdom-aligned and must be proven at every turn.

It means grappling with tough questions and, really, reconnecting and recommitting to what’s deeply within each of us—while allowing others to do the same, fully knowing that everyone you meet is fighting a battle you know nothing about.

We need a lot more Golden Rule in what we build, because if we can’t explain this to our kids, then we’ve already failed.

The time to permanently reframe ethical AI is today.

Let’s build a future where technology serves us—not just the behind-the-scenes brokers of power and influence in their warring over our hearts and minds for their ends.

We can’t leave them anything less.

If we don’t act, we aren’t just risking a dystopian future—we’re allowing it to be built for us, by the few, at the expense of the many.

Once you see, you'll never unsee it again when you look in the mirror. And you know there’s no better window into your own soul than when you look into your kids' eyes.

The question isn’t whether AI will shape our world—it’s whether we’ll jointly demand it does so ethically and with coherence with who we really are in all the ways that truly matter.

Any counter-narrative reframing only proves the point and hastens its own demise. There is no ethical way to internally re-spin it once you realize that you’re being manipulated to your family’s detriment.

I’m as sorry to have to bring it to you like this as I have been for my own family.

But my hope is big for your kids and mine—that we can give them a truly better world, one that is healthy and that connects.

But now, you must decide—who is AI really for?