Rent Your Agent, Outsource Your Judgment: Maria Ressa on AI Infrastructure Capture
round · x · 2026-10-12
Nobel laureate journalist Maria Ressa warns that what's needed for information platforms is even more urgent for AI: frontier models don't just shape what you read — they act on your behalf, reading email, booking travel, answering messages, negotiating with other people's agents. "It becomes you in digital space." She calls this the deepest, scariest form of infrastructure capture: rent your chat platform and you outsource your public square; rent your agent and you outsource your judgment.
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