“And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
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AI, Power, and the Principles of Real Governance
Once a technology reaches a certain level of capability, arguing about whether it should exist stops being useful.
That argument always shows up late. By the time it arrives, the infrastructure is already in place, money has picked a direction, and power has quietly settled where it intends to stay.
Artificial intelligence is already past that point.
So the question is not whether AI should exist. Reality has already answered that.
The question is whether we are willing to govern it deliberately, or whether we are going to do what we usually do and let governance emerge by accident.
We have run this pattern before.
What People Mean When They Say “This Feels Dangerous”
Most objections to AI are framed as ethical concerns, but they are vague.
People say it is moving too fast. They say the technology crossed a line. They say something feels off.
Those reactions are understandable. They are also incomplete.
What people are usually reacting to is not AI itself. It is the erosion of confidence in judgment. Authorship feels unstable. Trust feels harder to place. It is not always clear who is responsible for what you are seeing, reading, or relying on.
AI is unusual because it is easy to use while remaining hard to understand. You can interact with it immediately without knowing how it was trained, what shaped its behavior, or what incentives sit behind its deployment. That gap creates unease. It makes people feel like their footing is less solid than it used to be.
That feeling matters.
But discomfort does not tell you how to govern a system.
Governance starts after you acknowledge the discomfort and still refuse to hand the wheel to panic.