Move Fast and Break Souls - AI, Accountability, and Counter-Infrastructure

In this video I talk about why that old startup slogan doesn’t work anymore once AI is sitting between us and our grief, our doubts, our late-night spirals – and why we need to start building counter-infrastructure instead of just “AI features.”

We get into:
• How AI tools are starting to touch the inner life, not just productivity
• Why treating your soul like a broken engine is a category error (shoutout Henri Bergson)
• The danger of “algorithm as alibi” – when mayors, CEOs, and execs start blaming models for moral decisions
• What I mean by counter-infrastructure: using the same clouds and LLMs, but explicitly in service of people, not engagement
• Aurelius, my own little experiment: an anonymous reflection app on AWS that listens without turning you into a product

This isn’t an “AI is evil” rant and it’s not a hype video either. It’s a call to build tools that respect the soul, keep humans in the loop, and refuse to use models as moral shields.

If you’re a builder, designer, or just a curious human trying to navigate the AI era with your integrity (and sanity) intact, this one’s for you.

🪐 Who I am
I’m Ed – data engineer by trade, suburban Saturn by temperament. I build weird little cloud-native tools for reflection, ethics, and inner life, and try very hard not to break people while I’m at it.

🎥 Related stuff
• Medium essay on counter-infrastructure and “moral weather stations” –   / aurelius-building-a-small-moral-weather-st...  

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See you in the next orbit. 🌊🪐

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