Dean Ball

Yeah.

Uh, right.

Like, um, and so we'll do all these things and courts, another great example would be courts.

Like we already have lots of private adjudication in America.

What if we just like, what if that trend just continues?

And like, we kind of just leave the public institutions behind.

um that could be fine and good for a lot of things but i think it's also a trend to be aware of because um we might be subjecting ourselves to like essentially governance by corporations and we kind of already are in many ways as the rise of the technology companies has been you know um uber and my friend sam hammond uh at

colleague at the foundation for American innovation always makes the point that like Uber is a form of private governance.

We essentially privatize taxi regulation.

And now we have like peer to peer private governance through Uber.

Um, and, uh, yeah, like, you know, I mean, that's fine and good, but play that out, play that out, extrapolate that out to like lots of things.

And it might not be so great, um, in 50 years, play that out five years.

Well, I think one good example could be public safety, right?

Maybe it's the case that public safety devolves more and more to private communities.

And so individual, like maybe my block, maybe the DC government's grasp on future public safety because AI gives criminals new mechanisms to interfere with people's lives, right?

They can disable my Wi-Fi and come in with their...

you know, new kinds of crazy technologies and come into my house and steal things from me.

And the government proves unable to keep up with these radical changes in the capabilities of criminals.

And so I end up having to, in addition to paying taxes,

I have to pay for private security in the form of, like, drones or robots or something that, like, police my neighborhood.