Source: Brownstone Institute
by Josh Stylman
“I didn’t want to feed my soul into a machine. That was my first instinct when AI tools started appearing everywhere – not concern about jobs or privacy, but something deeper. These tools promise to make us smarter while systematically making us more dependent. After decades of working in the internet industry, I’d already watched it transform into something more insidious than just a surveillance machine – a system designed to shape how we think, what we believe, and how we see ourselves. AI felt like the culmination of that trajectory. But resistance became futile when I realized we’re already participating whether we know it or not.” (09/10/25)
https://brownstone.org/articles/ai-inevitability-and-human-sovereignty/