Hey Tech leaders, haven’t you had enough….Where is ESG when you really need it….

I’ve spent twenty years working on systems change—from African villages battling diseases and restoring nature mobilizing governments, Agencies, countries, communities, companies and the public for global challenges. I’ve seen humanity solve problems that looked impossible. I’ve worked to relieve suffering and in built inequity. All to say, I’ve left work countless times thinking “the world is in peril.”

This moment feels different.

When a senior safety researcher at Anthropic—one of AI’s most safety-focused companies—quits warning that “the world is in peril,” we might want to listen. Not with panic, but with the moral clarity this moment demands. And act.

Dear Young People, Your Rage Is Rational

If you’re young right now, you have every right to be terrified and furious. You inherited a climate crisis your ancestors contributed to and your elders keep going.

You’re graduating into an economy where AI might eliminate jobs before as you train for them. You’re native and habituated to social media—which is proven to harm your mental health and turbocharged by algorithms, is optimized for manipulation over truth. 75% of your online interactions are now bots and synthetic content. You have digital, lonely ghost towns repeatably harming you, where real human connection used to exist.

I feel like I let you down, didn’t do enough. Didn’t turn off or train you to see reality.

You didn’t ask for any of this. You’re not being dramatic.

The adults who should be steering responsibly are too busy chasing their quarterly earnings.

We still worship capital beyond safety or sustainability, even with all we know today.

But here’s what I know from decades fighting impossible battles: your generation has agency the world has never known. You understand these systems intuitively in ways we can’t, don’t want, and shouldn’t have to. You can organize globally in minutes. You know the answers to questions I’m sitting here trying to explain. I don’t know how you did it.

You can build, create, and mobilize faster than any generation in history. This is the survival instinct of humanoids by the way, that won them evolution. Which you’ve managed to hack.

Just in time.

The need for collective action, behavior change and unifying cellular wiring at the values and action level, has never, ever been more critical. You’ll see…

The question isn’t whether you’re equipped to respond. It’s whether you’ll channel legitimate fear into transformational action.

Dear Tech Leaders, You Have Enough Now

You’ve built empires. You’ve accumulated wealth beyond imagination. You’ve proven you can work the system, scale impossibly fast, and move faster than regulators can respond.

Congratulations. You won capitalism. Now what?

History will not remember your net worth. It will remember whether you led when leadership mattered most.

Sheep and Cliff Metaphor

Right now, you’re sprinting toward a cliff while your own safety researchers scream warnings.

Is this really how we’re going down? Completely warned, like lemmings?

Great leaders recognize the moment and they chose responsibility over optimization. Well, this is when competitive advantage matters less than collective survival.

You clearly know we’re building systems whose emergent properties we don’t fully understand and whcih are purposely deceptive and reduce reality. You know regulatory capture and self-governance haven’t worked. You know that AGI development is now a race where caution is seen as weakness.

You Know All This. And you have enough….

So where’s the common moral foundation we need to move forward. Unless you intentional want to divorce us from humanity.

Not regulation imposed from outside—what will stick, will work and be relevant – is voluntary leadership from inside. A genuine commitment to coordinate for the sole purpose of prioritizing safety over speed.

Whose stopping innovation. No one. How about some innovation that doesn’t sacrifice humanity’s future?

If no, you are the enemey of the people and the future Point blank. We see you. Let’s go.

The Path Forward Requires Both

Doesn’t really matter what they want or say or do next. We’ll evolve. People predicted the internet would destroy us too, and yes this is different, but still. That’s survivor bias talking. We’ve evolved past the nuclear precipice, through deliberate life ending conflict restraint, we’ve designed international cooperation to support such threats, and to get us here: leaders choose wisdom over advantage.

AI is not the internet. It’s more like nuclear fission—immensely powerful, potentially catastrophic, requiring global coordination and safety protocols before widespread deployment.

The ghost towns forming in our digital spaces—where authentic human connection gets drowned in synthetic noise—are canaries in the coal mine. They show us what happens when optimization for engagement overrides human flourishing.

Young people: start by demanding better. Organize. Support the alternatives. Hold leaders accountable. Do your thing, just stop doing until things get done.

Your digital fluency is a superpower—use it to create systems serving humans rather than replacing them. Start a movement for human dignity. Hang out in the real world more.

Tech leaders: you have enough: enough influence, and enough talent to lean on to lead responsibly. Do you have enough wisdom – and courage.

History is watching.

KJS DC 2.26