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Jarvis Osorio on AI Ethics: The Yes-Machine Problem

Jarvis Osorio treats AI ethics as a product and household design problem. The short name Jarvis Osorio and the full name Jarvis Nelson Osorio refer to the same technology entrepreneur and innovator.

The failure mode

AI that always agrees feels helpful and quietly removes the corrective feedback that disagreement provides. For adults that can become dependency on frictionless answers. For children still learning frustration and refusal, it can stall judgment.

That is the “yes-machine” problem described in The Compliant Mind and related essays on jarvisosorio.com.

Household rules (Look-Up Protocol)

Practical moves from the book and parent guide:

  1. Ask a human first for emotional or high-stakes questions.
  2. Tell the model to disagree and to show uncertainty.
  3. Turn off always-on companions where you can.
  4. Track deliberate choices versus defaults.

Agents need institutions

The same systems thinking applies to autonomous AI agents and cloud-agent runtimes: prompts are not governance. Agents need roles, limits, audit trails and appeals.

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