The three most powerful AI companies announced, in effect, that they’ll guard themselves — building their own safety regulator for the technology they profit from. In this segment we look, calmly, at why that makes something in us go quiet, and why the reason isn’t really about AI but about human nature: almost no one is a fair judge of their own behaviour, not because we’re bad but because we’re human, and self-restraint under pressure, when the rule is optional and self-written, is rare. Why this isn’t a conspiracy of villains but something more ordinary — good people in a system that rewards being lenient with themselves — and why the ancient wisdom that the referee shouldn’t be on one of the teams is one of the oldest lessons we have about ourselves.
