The 2 Days my AI Assistant built a government instead of training a model
An approval literally said GO while its own findings described reasons not to go. Before launching, the wrapper reran a large ceremonial test suite. It completed the entire review.This was it.After two days, dozens of protocol versions and enough tests to establish asmall sovereign nation, we had reached the finish line.Me: “So we have the second approval?”AI: “No.”Me: “Did the reviewer fail?”AI: “No.
- ▪An approval literally said GO while its own findings described reasons not to go.
- ▪Before launching, the wrapper reran a large ceremonial test suite.
- ▪It completed the entire review.This was it.After two days, dozens of protocol versions and enough tests to establish asmall sovereign nation, we had reached the finish line.Me: “So we have the second approval?”AI: “No.”Me: “Did the reviewer
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| Publication time | Tue, 11 Aug 2026 13:55:04 +0000 |
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Artificial IntelligenceAI AgentSoftware EngineeringMachine LearningHumorThe Two Days My AI Assistant Built a Government Instead of Training a ModelChris Mitre7 min read·Just now--ListenShareWritten by Chris MitreLet me tell you about the two days my AI assistant spent trying to obtainpermission from itself.The original job involved preparing something for a machine-learning pipeline.At least, I think it did.By the second day, nobody appeared to be working on that anymore.We had independent reviewers.Frozen evidence.Signed approvals.Sealed secrets.One-shot execution ceremonies.Hundreds of tests.And an increasingly serious constitutional dispute about whether one tiny subprocess was allowed to exist.I had asked an AI assistant to make the work safe.The AI assistant built a government.– -THE…
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