Randy Fernando

Parents are pulling their kids off of platforms.

that feeling, that sense isn't coming from people who've read AI ethics papers.

It's coming from people who can genuinely feel that something is wrong.

And what they're feeling is the absence of this principle.

What they can also feel is that the technology is being built to extract attention, to replace labor, to harvest data, and they can sense all of that.

So,

Really what this principle is about is why are we building technology in the first place?

What are we centering when we have that conversation?

There are some really basic things that our technology should guarantee us or help us to achieve.

Food, clothing, shelter, medicine, education, quality relationships.

And you can move up and up and up and say, okay, at the end, there's some kind of self-actualization.

You get to have fun and play games and have hobbies.

But we need all those things.

It's not one of those things at the detriment of all the others.

this principle is going to come into play in a huge way in the agentic world.

Because now we're shifting into a world where everyone's going to have some kind of agent that is starting to influence our next actions.

Agents are trying to figure out what your intentions are and help you achieve them constantly.

And everyone's competing to be that agent, right?

To be the place where you go to express that and carry on your life.

So let's break this down a bit because this is so important and it comes up all the time.