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SW Palmer on trust, power, and what it means to build AI that actually serves people — a countercultural take on a neoliberal, technocratic field.

three perspectives

One thread, three angles

Technical

How it works

What the systems actually do, stripped of marketing language — so the rest of the argument stands on solid ground.

Systemic

Who it serves

The incentives, institutions, and power structures that decide who AI is built for, and who absorbs the cost.

Narrative

What it means

You're not a passive consumer of this story. The narrative layer is where you become an active meaning-maker.

about

SW Palmer

I'm SW Palmer. I think about trust, power, and what it means to build AI that actually serves people. Most of the conversation around artificial intelligence is run by people with something to sell — a faster model, a cheaper workflow, a bigger market. I'm interested in the questions that get skipped over in that pitch: who decides what counts as "serving people," who's accountable when it doesn't, and what gets lost when care and trust get treated as features instead of foundations.

My work sits at the intersection of social care, trust, and artificial intelligence, and it's deliberately countercultural — closer to DIY than enterprise. I research at the intersection of social care, trust and artificial intelligence.

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