Quick check.
Do you actually want an AI model sharp enough to help a husband orchestrate the perfect hit on his wife?
My gut says no. Hard pass. Not even close.
America’s big, though. Opinions run wide and strange.
One of them comes from George Hotz, the Comma AI guy who has never met a rule he liked.
He dropped this over the weekend.
It was a shot back at those grand plans to steer AI safely into the future, specifically the AI 2040: Plan A paper. That document wants researchers to hit pause for 14 years. To protect us.
Hotz hates the idea.
He thinks slowing down for the “collective good” is nonsense. He doesn’t buy the fast-takeoff nightmare scenario either, honestly I agree with some of that. For him, safety means local models. Tools that answer only to the person holding them.
Centrally managed services like ChatGdom and Claude have their place. Hosting is pricey, right? Most folks don’t use them enough to justify personal servers. Yet.
But tech moves fast. The DIY spirit of things like OpenClaw feels fresh again.
We need more of that grit.
Hotz takes the concept further, because he loves the burn.
He compares a truly aligned personal AI to a firearm. Guns don’t care if you shoot your stepmother. Why should a computer?
He claims a proper AI would order meth lab gear via Prime and tell you exactly how to mix the chemicals, just because you asked.
He says he’d die defending this principle.
Who kills over this?
“We either live in a world with freedom, or we don’t.”
Sounds punchy.
Does it hold up?
Freedom isn’t vacuum-packed. It comes wrapped in a society of other people. Markets. Networks. Rules that bind us together so we don’t eat each other.
Deploying mass-market tech means looking at the whole web, not just the guy typing the prompt. You have to think about the spouses who are currently alive and not murdered by their significant other.
The freedom Hotz describes depends on everyone else playing along. That world vanishes if we all become AI-powered warlords overnight.
Like the meme says, we live in society.
I’d still love a local bot to take on my HOA.
Send a review unit, please.
