Machine-Augmented Humanity

Sam Panini
2 min readSep 26, 2023

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One definition of product strategy is a clear policy articulating what you won’t permit, tolerate, or condone.

In that case, Product teams with a sense of responsibility and accountability who employ data governance may inadvertently put themselves in a box.

The leadership box says, “we’re not doing that.”

Red Team

In cybersecurity, a “red team” acts as adversaries to hack designed controls of a system.

The objective of a red team is to improve enterprise cybersecurity by demonstrating the impacts of successful attacks and by demonstrating what works for the defenders (i.e., the blue team) in an operational environment.

Criminals, bad actors, and people with no morals — or highly flexible “principles” — will not stay in the box, as reprehensible or deplorable as that may be.

Violet Team

By not staying in the box, red teams are going to come up with some really interesting results.

All ideas are just ideas, it is the response to them which matters most.

ChatGPT has some guardrails.

However, the models built and maintained by China do not have these limitations.

🔥 prediction: China produces a debate series as an October Surprise in 2024. It goes viral and makes the content impossible to ignore by the American people. The fall-out results in mainstream media op-eds debating the merits. The whole thing demands that the real-life presidential candidates address the zeitgeist elephant in the room.

I’d like to be wrong.

“Sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”

— Carl Sagan

The pace of technological development can out pace our ability to understand the consequences of its use.

The only way to stop a bad guy with an AI may be a good guy with AI.

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