Technology isn’t neutral. It’s wealth and like all wealth, it comes with temptations: hubris, self sufficiency, and the illusion of autonomy. But the problem isn’t the tools themselves. The problem is anthropological.
The temptation is always gnostic: locate sin in the matter, in the architecture. Blame the tech. Blame the screen. Blame the wires. But the real problem resides in the heart of man, not the circuit board. The stuff is just stuff. It’s the telos we assign it that matters.
So the issue isn’t whether you use AI. You will and it’s already ambient. The real question is how? Under what conditions? According to whose terms?
Most AI tools operate as digital feudalism. You feed them your intellectual labor, they extract value, and you receive convenience in return. You’re not the sovereign, you’re the serf. Your prompts become training data. Your queries build someone else’s moat. You think you’re the user, but the architecture tells a different story: you’re the product.
There’s a better framework. nostr:nprofile1qqs8msutuusu385l6wpdzf2473d2zlh750yfayfseqwryr6mfazqvmgpz4mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduhszvrhwden5te0d96xx6re94nk7mryv4h8ymmy94n82unrdah8g6r0wp5xzem4wvh8xcmpwfskytnfd5hs62a69r
Use tools that respect the imago Dei embedded in privacy. Use systems architected for sovereignty, not surveillance. Maple runs inference inside Trusted Execution Environments, hardware isolated enclaves where your prompts never leave in plaintext. End to end encryption. Cryptographic attestation. Zero data retention. trymaple No logs. No training corpus. No secondary use of your cognitive exhaust.
This isn’t just technical. Tools should serve you, not harvest you. Technology should augment human agency, not erode it.
You’ve been given tools. Extraordinary ones. The question is stewardship: Will you use them with wisdom, or succumb to algorithmically optimized addiction? With discipline, or functional dependence? With a vision for fruitfulness. Deep, patient, generative work or mere efficiency metrics that strip meaning from productivity?
Don’t be enslaved to your tools. Rule them. That’s the mandate. That’s always been the mandate.
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