- The Work That Made Them
AI closes the gap fastest for the least experienced worker, and the entry-level jobs where inexperienced people used to become experienced ones are opening less often. Those jobs were never only output. They were how the part nobody writes down got transferred, and organizations now lean harder on judgment they have stopped producing. - Who the Ban Can Bind
The Ban Artificial Superintelligence Act declares it United States policy to prevent superintelligence development globally. Its pause starts the day the bill is signed; the international agreements that would make it global do not exist yet. Everything in that interval lands on the people this government can actually reach. - What the Ban Can Measure
The Ban Artificial Superintelligence Act would create a cabinet department, a licensing regime, and a twenty-year sentence modeled on nuclear weapons law. What it does not create is a test an operator could apply to know whether the system on his desk is the one being banned. - The Doors Were Open
In 1998, Chiquita executives tried to work out how a reporter knew their secrets, and discussed it on the voicemail system he was reading. Nobody had been fooled; the doors were already open. A phishing simulation measures whether people can be deceived. The breaches that matter often need no deception at all. - Always On
Remote work stopped being a question of capability years ago. What changed is that the places where connectivity ran out have disappeared, and those dead zones had been enforcing a rule about stopping that nobody ever wrote down.
About James Nerlinger
James Nerlinger came up as an engineer on servers and networks and spent thirty years in enterprise infrastructure—major incident management, global operations, and director-level roles at Atos, formerly Siemens IT Solutions, with account responsibility for Fortune 500 clients including Disney, MetLife, McGraw-Hill Education, and Harrah’s Casinos.
He is also the founder of Deep Dark Abyss Productions, an independent software studio, and the author of the interfaith theological blog Many Lamps, One Flame and the memoir One More Beat.
At Ground Level is where he writes about technology, organizations, and what happens when they interact under pressure.
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jnj@atgroundlevel.com
