If AI Breaks the Rules, Who Gets to Pull the Plug?

1. What I learned before I could read

I grew up in a remote town in Zulia, Venezuela. I learned what was right and what was wrong before I learned to read: at home, at school, on the street. Nobody wrote it down for me. I learned it by watching what got rewarded and what got punished.

Then came the laws. They mark the path, and most of us follow it. Some people decide to step off it and make mistakes or commit crimes, and that's what consequences are for.

A code isn't tested when following it is easy. It's tested when breaking it would pay off. At the oil company, I watched the permanent jobs go to two relatives of the manager instead of the top graduates of the year. At Maiquetía airport, where I worked as an immigration officer, I left public service because I felt pushed to...

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