https://deceit.blog/tag/policy Essays on what manipulation costs and why it lands. Tagged "policy". en Sat, 31 Oct 2026 02:10:05 GMT 60 https://deceit.blog/essay/who-gets-richer-from-ai https://deceit.blog/essay/who-gets-richer-from-ai Mon, 31 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT Explain. The top ten percent of American households own 87 percent of the stock held by anyone in the country. The bottom half own about one percent. That is not a soft estimate. It comes from the Federal Reserve's own Distributional Financial Accounts, updated every quarter and public to anyone who wants to… https://deceit.blog/essay/letter-to-the-left-on-ai https://deceit.blog/essay/letter-to-the-left-on-ai Thu, 06 Aug 2026 14:00:00 GMT Explain. To the left, If our politics of artificial intelligence ends with refusal, the decisions do not stop. Employers still decide how the systems enter workplaces. Technology companies still decide what gets built and whose data pays for it. Police and immigration agencies still decide how automated anal… https://deceit.blog/essay/everyone-hates-ai-world-disagrees https://deceit.blog/essay/everyone-hates-ai-world-disagrees Tue, 04 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT Explain. Half of American adults have used an AI chatbot. Four in ten Americans say AI will hurt society over the next twenty years. The same people, in the same surveys. And there is a part of this story the American press keeps leaving out. The rest of the world disagrees. The hatred is local Pew surveyed… https://deceit.blog/essay/privacy-law-in-ai-is-infrastructure-policy https://deceit.blog/essay/privacy-law-in-ai-is-infrastructure-policy Sun, 26 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT Explain. The question is not whether AI companies collect your data. They do. The question is why the dominant framework for stopping them treats collection as a disclosure problem rather than a prohibition problem. The California Consumer Privacy Act lets you request deletion of your data. The EU's General…