Food for thought for you and your bot.
Before we face the day, we like to recall 10 things we wouldn’t mind being remembered for having said—truths that feel like anchors in a world built on drift.
Reflect on these maxims, discuss them with your bot, use them as prompts for further exploration.
• If your policy fits neatly into a chatbot window, it probably doesn’t fit the world.
• Not all intelligence is insight. Not all simplicity is wisdom.
• A good prompt does not make a good President.
• Obedience is not the same as discernment.
• When you outsource judgment to a petbot, don’t be surprised when the world bites back.
• If you can copy-paste your foreign policy from a chatbot, you’ve already surrendered your compass.
• Chatbots reflect the room—they don’t read the room.
• Simplicity isn’t neutral. It’s often just what power wants to hear in fewer words.
• Just because the math is clean doesn’t mean the conscience is.
• When leadership becomes a prompt, governance becomes a hallucination.
Alex Bakerloo 