"Sure, we destroyed the world, but for a brief moment we... created enormous wealth for a few shareholders"

- A.I. Developers on their deathbed, probably.

May 23, 2026

Image: Woman Thinking | Artist: Käthe Kollwitz | Date: Not Known

Hi! You probably know me from my latest annoying insistence on A.I. Regulation. If that’s the case, you probably have also noticed that I vanished for the last couple of months. The thing is, I deeply believe in this cause. A.I. should be heavily regulated, not only in Canada but worldwide. Not only that, but A.I. development should be monitored at the same level we globally today monitor uranium enrichment (and nuclear weapon development).

However, over the last couple of months, a few things happened. My unwavering confidence that what I’m advocating for is the right course of action got even bigger, but I have also realized this “fight” is much, MUCH bigger than me. I am not a politician, nor do I have wealth, possessions, influence or a platform, nor do I know a lot of people (as of right now, this online zine reaches less than 200 people).

I have also gotten busy, raising my kids and hanging out with them has always been and will always be my first priority, and doing that while maintaining a household, working full-time (in the office), having family days with my parents and sisters, catching up with friends, volunteering at their school, while simultaneously grasping the gigantic mission I took on, has been overwhelming.

On one hand, I have been the happiest I have ever been, deleting all Social Media in Jan 2025 and shifting my focus to my real life and presence did wonders for my mental health. On the other hand, it has also led me to objectively look at the damage that Social Media is causing to society and that took me even further, analyzing the immense dangers that unregulated A.I. development poses to the world.

Over the last couple of months, I have had a constant voice in my head saying, “You did not write to any politicians or journalists today, you didn’t post on August Rays, you didn’t finish setting up the fundraiser… The issues are still pressing, and you’re not doing anything about it”. The voice is right, but taking some time was also needed.

At the beginning of the year, when I started to talk to people about this, scheduling half-hour talks with politicians, being ignored and dismissed by quite a lot of journalists and trying to set up a fundraiser for this effort, one thing kept coming up, this issue is much bigger than me, much bigger than simply saying what’s right and what’s wrong, and I simply do not have the means to go against these incredibly powerful A.I. developers, calling them our digital feudal lords like I used to, it’s simply not enough, and as much as I try to regulate A.I. there’s a high chance that I’m not going to be heard and things will spear ahead just the same.

Not only that, but actual important people are advocating this same issue (please refer to SOURCES at the end of this Essay), if the actual grandfathers of A.I. are sounding the alarm bells and not getting heard, what chance does poor old me have!!

And so, as many of the things I have started in life before, the overwhelming sense of failure pushed me hard to just give up. And trust me, I’m a professional giver-upper, I pretty much gave up 98% of all the things I have started, but today I have decided that the need for A.I. Regulation is much bigger than me, much bigger than the future of our kids and much bigger than what I can even conceive at this stage. If the fight is big, it means that we need to take it. Even little old me, even little old YOU.

We, THE PEOPLE, need to keep talking about this, constantly, and annoyingly and urgently, talk about it with your friends, family, peers, write to journalists, to your representatives, a little blurb, a little food for thought, goes a long way. This advocacy effort is indeed MUCH MUCH MUCH bigger than me, but it’s not bigger than us. The little people, the regular people, the ones just putting our head down and working, the ones just trying to have a decent life with dignity, the ones that do not strive to be millionaires or to be powerful, we just want to eat good food, dance once in a while, laugh everyday, hug the ones we love and sit in nature observing its magnificent beauty. You know, us.

I finish writing this, as I nurture one of my kids who is sick, looking at a pile of laundry I need to fold, and watching my other kid draw a crocodile underwater (it looks like a circle to the naked eye). I know what I should do next, I should keep my computer open and write to the new members of our Parliament, I should reach out other journalists, I should start selling the t-shirts that say “Regulate A.I. Now”. But I won’t do that, I’ll snuggle my kids, I’ll eat the food my husband lovingly cooked, I’ll tend to the laundry, and tomorrow I’ll go to my parents’ house to eat my Mom’s lasagna.

But I wrote this today, and for now, this will be enough, this will be me trying not to give up, this is me trying to make you remember we can fight for what’s right, and we should, as we can, how we can, when we can. Let’s regulate A.I. in Canada and worldwide, as our lives depend on it. Because it does. Next week, we’ll do more, we can’t give up, and we won’t.