The series
An Alternative to Big Tech AI
Seven essays on owning the intelligence
You do not have to choose between Big Tech AI and no AI. Across seven essays, this series sets out a third option: intelligence that belongs to your community, stays on ground you control, knows your context instead of averaging you into everyone else's, and cannot quietly take authority it was never given. Each essay stands on something already running — read it, skim the key messages, or present the slides.
The Off-Switch Is Not Enough
Why "switch off the AI" is the wrong thing to ask for — and what the third option looks like
AI That Stays in Its Lane
The premium is a machine that cannot cross the line into the judgements that are yours to make.
The Minutes That Can't Be Rewritten
What a board needs from AI is a record of its decisions it can prove, and lift out whole on demand.
Your Model, Your Walls
For teams who can't put sensitive material in someone else's cloud: an AI that runs inside your own walls and never phones home.
A Village You Can Run Yourself
Stop renting a corner of someone else's platform. Run your own ground, under your own name, free to connect with others without being absorbed.
A Control Tower, Not a Watchtower
To run anything at scale you have to see how it is going. The question is whether the tool you build to see is a control tower or a watchtower.
The Words We're Taking Back
We spent six essays not saying a word. Here is why, and why we can say it now.
See the platform for yourself: the demo Villages, the free Governance course, and the Your Community, Your AI article series. — My Digital Sovereignty Ltd.