Writing on AI Governance

The Musk v. Altman trial ended in procedural dismissal. The structural argument survives. Within twenty-four hours the first staff-departure signal landed. The architectural question the courts did not answer is being answered this week, by infrastructure decisions accumulating in real time.

Three weeks of testimony. Five witnesses on Altman. A documented pattern on Musk. The architectures these two men have built around themselves are not equivalent. An honest reading of the Musk v. Altman record before deliberation.

The Musk v. Altman trial will not determine who governs AI. No one in that courtroom is asking who controls the infrastructure — including orbital compute operating beyond any regulator's jurisdiction. That is the conversation we need to have right now.