AI governance debate: should liberty, not democratic input, be the default?
sethlazar · x · 2026-10-01
An X exchange on AI governance: @Afinetheorem argued that while democratic input makes sense for major tech decisions, people who use or build something, or exercise individual liberty, don't need "democratic input" — liberty should be the default, with joint decisions reserved for unresolvable conflicts. Economist Seth Lazar replied that he'd draw the exceptions differently but agrees liberty should be the default.
A representative clash in AI governance philosophy between liberty-first and collective-deliberation framings.
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