I'm trying to think of a rule against using AI or even the rule of at least documenting where you use AI. There was one project where I tried to be diligent about including GitHub copilot as a co-author but then I slipped and forgot and there's no point in bothering.
I think I'm just going to strongly encourage disclosing AI usage but there can be no requirements.
You can literally walk up to any cop and say "my brother says he wants to kill me and I'm scared" and that's more than plenty.
The way I see it we have very little agency in this world. That's why I choose to believe in predestination. If your brother kills then he was always destined to kill, you can't know that about him like that's not something anyone could know about anyone else. But I fully believe and live by the truth that it is possible to know a little bit better than everyone else.
By the nature of things you know more about the situation than I can ever. And you know more than the other people experiencing this situation. There is nothing immoral about such a state, the correct way to characterize it is "a potential matter of life and death" therefore "the potential of dialing 911", and back to my thesis it cost $0 to give the right people a heads up.
There's nothing wrong with knowing better.
Full disclosure I'm kind of suffering with my own motivation issues, I have things in my life that feel small to me that I just can't do for my own reasons. I'm sorry if I presented the words "my brother says he wants to kill me and I'm scared" as easy.
So what does this mean? Bc like (at least with my boss) whenever I submit ai generated code at work I still have to have a deep and comprehensive understanding of the changes that I made, and I have to be right (meaning I have to be right about what I say bc I cannot say the AI solved the problem). What's the difference between that and me writing the code myself (+googling and stack overflow)?
That almost feels analogous to the world burning.. like this is going to sound a little macabre but are you really expecting 2026 to be better? If so can you articulate why??
When I read about this I'm always brought back to the conversation of "internet as a public utility". I hope it's cool if we can take a tangent.
See unlike any of our other utilities like natural gas electricity water and sewage, the only thing that could potentially give any meaningful information about us is our sewage,, and the government already tests sewage for diseases. If we allow the government to "sell" us our internet they would basically be able to know everyone we are "talking too". Also how could we ever have enough regulatory oversight to protect everyone on the internet. Symmetrically if the government wants to have so much regulatory control over our internet it should maybe pay for it.
Like I wouldn't mind even paying another 50 bucks a month extra for "private internet" just so the government can have their free and regulated "public internet". Or would I (・–・)ゞ?
There seem to be many of these multicellular animals who don't feel like a singular individual animal. I was commenting on a post a few months ago about the most genetically simple multicellular animal, this thing has less base pairs than most bacteria, and it can also do this trick where disassociated cells recombine into new individuals. This creature also reproduce sexually if and only if the concentration of fellow individuals is high enough, cells will just leave the body and join a new one like for fun. It really calls into question what an individual is.
The same advantages as all free and open source solution, it's free and open source. That means how much it's going to cost to your business is directly under your control. You can make a decision on how you acquire hardware based on your business's needs. If you want to add or change features you can decide how to do that based on the deals you have with your programmers (like pick the developer you have with the best skills and the lowest cost), and then you get to control how much it costs you and how reliable the result is going to be.
If you feel like the support you get from customer service from Amazon or Google or Microsoft is reliable enough and you don't need more reliability then go ahead and stick with paid products. But if you already have a team of really expensive and talented engineers you might as well let them solve problems with free and open source equipment.
I'm trying to think of a rule against using AI or even the rule of at least documenting where you use AI. There was one project where I tried to be diligent about including GitHub copilot as a co-author but then I slipped and forgot and there's no point in bothering.
I think I'm just going to strongly encourage disclosing AI usage but there can be no requirements.