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AI, Technology, and Infrastructure

Reader. AI governance, tech ethics, software, data-center, acceleration/risk readers.

Argument. Technology is not a neutral tool floating above extance. It is embodied in infrastructure, labor, water, energy, institutions, dependency, capability, speed, concentration, and possible unknown loci. The AI Field article explicitly treats AI and biosphere as entangled fields and rejects both doomer and accelerationist story-compressions.

This route teaches Modal Path Ethics as capability ethics under speed, opacity, infrastructure, and uncertainty.

The route, in order

  1. Applied Case: The Unknown Locus
  2. Applied Case: The Simulation Theory
  3. Applied Case: The Missing Link
  4. Applied Case: The Bing Chat
  5. Modal Systems: A Taxonomy for the Post-Language Model Stack
  6. Applied Case: The Datacenter
  7. Applied Case: The Therac-25
  8. Applied Case: The Technological Singularity
  9. Applied Case: The AI Field in 2026
  10. Speed Critical Scenarios
  11. Biosphere as Structure
  12. Capabilities & Obligations
  13. Applied Case: The Biosphere in 2026
  14. The Narrow Path Ahead
  15. Applied Case: The American Corrigibility Crisis

The five keystone moves

Every route is built so the reader is forced through these five structural moves.

  1. Harm. Harm is contraction, not just suffering, blame, rights-violation, or bad feeling.
  2. Bearer. The bearer is an extant locus, not necessarily a person.
  3. Reach. Reachability matters more than abstract possibility.
  4. Weight. Weighting prevents flat optionality. Not every lost branch matters equally.
  5. Resistance. Resistance and burden transfer explain hidden harm before final closure.