person
David Brin
Sci-fi novelist; 'The Transparent Society' author
Hugo and Nebula award-winning science fiction author; author of 'The Transparent Society' (1998). Argues mutual surveillance and reciprocal accountability are the structural answer to surveillance and AI concentration.
current Novelist / public intellectual, Independent author
Strategy positions
Multi-agent equilibriumendorses
Many AIs checking each other is the safety mechanismArgues a transparent society in which AIs watch other AIs and humans watch both is the only stable equilibrium; opaque concentration of AI in a small number of hands is the failure mode.
Reciprocal accountability, the ability to look back at those who look at us, is what keeps both governments and corporations honest. AI inherits that requirement.
Record last updated 2026-04-25.