Will Preble

Building the operating system for private, encrypted, open-source AI @covenantlabsai || Emerging Tech & Human Potential ☦️

[Will Preble @kingwillxm]

@Pontifex Pro-tip - tell your AI “please remove all em-dashes”

Otherwise really dope work here Leo!

[Will Preble @kingwillxm]

@MTSlive @timhwang This is 100% the right vector of research, major props to @timhwang you have been inspiring many of us Christians in AI

Just going to leave this here :)

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[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

Today, among the goods that are universally intended for everyone, we must also include new forms of property, such as patents, algorithms, digital platforms, technological infrastructure and data. In a context where the wealth of nations depends increasingly on knowledge and technology, when these goods remain concentrated in the hands of a few, without adequate forms of sharing and access, a new imbalance is created that contradicts the universal destination of goods. In turn, it widens the gap between the included and the excluded, between those who can participate in the digital revolution and those who remain on the margins. #MagnificaHumanitas

[Will Preble @kingwillxm]

Say "Private, Decentralized AI" is the solution without saying it

[David Sacks @DavidSacks]

The Pope rightly warns that AI must serve human dignity, not become a tool of domination or exclusion.

But if we hand governments sweeping power over AI development in the name of safety, how do we prevent it from being used to censor, surveil, and control citizens — as Orwell foretold in 1984?

This is the real alignment problem.

“Quis custodiet ipsos custodes.” Who will guard the guardians?

“Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.”

The oldest questions of human nature and authority don’t disappear in the AI age. They become newly relevant.

[Will Preble @kingwillxm]

The role of the visionary is not to “demystify”

The role of the visionary is to initiate

To expand access to the mystical nature of a higher vision through their work

Not to compress higher vision into a commodity driven by the whims of a market

Make the market serve your vision, not the other way around

[Will Preble @kingwillxm]

There is a major unforeseen consequence of “Vibe Business” (using AI to build and run your stuff)

In that many entrepreneurs seem to be focusing not on big, meaningful vision, or grounded, enduring problems, but on “hacking the market”

What is the thing I can vibe up in a weekend that will solve xyz problem and get me to exit?

In theory, there is nothing wrong with this thinking (just like there is nothing wrong with trading memecoins) as long as you clearly understand that you are “vibing”

However, I see many companies (even ones attached to big funds and accelerators which I won’t name here)

Who seem to be clearly under the psychosis that their vibing is more than what it is. They allow AI and X thought bubbles to convince them they have real vision, or large scale, enduring problems to solve

When in reality, they have middleware with no moat, and a brand that has no justification for its existence if that narrow product experiment fails

This is dangerous, because many will spend years of their lives focused on the wrong thing, only to come out with nothing (and the funds behind them will do fine because their model makes sense for many bets to fail)

The solution isn’t to stop “vibe business,” but to move up to a higher level of the game

Deploy vibe business strategically, with properly weighted bets

Use that data to map economic engines to your big vision of the future (build an enduring company and brand world that can exist for a long time, regardless of the specific product skin you now wear)

OR - play the vibe game well and get out fast enough that the tide of AI doesn’t wash away your sandcastle

[Will Preble @kingwillxm]

This is a very bad deal

Especially considering you can probably get the same value from a leading open source models at 1/10th of the cost AND keep your IP

[@jason @Jason]

Fair warning, YC founders: if you take these tokens, there’s a non-zero chance that OpenAI will study exactly what your startup is doing, copy your idea and put your app into their free offering.

This is the classic platform playbook — be careful, founders!

[Will Preble @kingwillxm]

@scottdwitt The technology for private AI, open source AI exists abundantly too. More so hidden price of poorly designed products that are misaligned with their users

[Will Preble @kingwillxm]

Who owns my AI when I die?

If my models and tools become the primary storehouse of my most valuable work, creativity, and IP, I think it's worth asking this question.

Currently, most people are feeding their stuff into tools that they don't own, which are incentivized not to protect the value of their human spirit or preserve their work for generations, but to monetize it.

The value of your human spirit is being fed into a recurring revenue machine.

The only way around this, outside of completely local models, is verifiable privacy for your primary AI tools.

Your Jarvis should protect and serve

Not spy and extract

[Will Preble @kingwillxm]

@_brian_johnson 100% agree - this is a core component of the agent OS we are building @Covenantlabsai

every action your agent takes is type safe, machine compiled code, and each action is stored in a specific type of graph that lives not in the model but the execution layer

[Will Preble @kingwillxm]

Claude Code and Codex are basically very smart contractors in your business with no NDA - gobbling up all your valuable IP and feeding back into the hive mind

Private Compute should be a standard, not a feature

The market for private and public tokens is beginning to bifurcate

[Chamath Palihapitiya @chamath]

If you are running a consulting business and you are deploying Anthropic or OpenAI directly into your organization (I’m looking at you PwC and Accenture) you are letting the fox into the hen house.

OpenAI and Anthropic are openly funding and starting competitors to you while also using your usage to drive more success for them.

This is not a failure on their part but a failure on your part.

Consulting businesses that understand this are adopting a control plane that allows them to arbitrate where tokens go and who generates tokens for them.

Controlling the tokens is controlling the spice (Dune).

This was a key pillar of 8090’s global partnership with EY and they key feature of our Software Factory. We control token generation and can direct them to any model provider.

We are close to another global partnership and will announce it soon.

These organizations refuse to accept the disruption standing still or, even worse, by adopting and accelerating the companies who want to disrupt them.

[Will Preble @kingwillxm]

@chams_builds its pretty wild when you actually think about it

[Will Preble @kingwillxm]

Without sovereign AI, any form of thought can be censored at any moment

Own your models, own your mind

[Bret Weinstein @BretWeinstein]

When I first saw the hantavirus story I thought: given it's a single stranded RNA virus, Ivermectin is very likely to work--because IVM is effective with RNA viruses generally. Look what happened when I pursued it with Claude.

It clammed up, for "safety" reasons.

Buckle up!

[Will Preble @kingwillxm]

@benln Awesome!

We are building the OS for sovereign ai @Covenantlabsai - verifiably encrypted models and verifiably private agents that are easy to deploy and manage in the cloud

Would love to chat

[Will Preble @kingwillxm]

What happens when there is an opportunity to develop a new drug that would be highly profitable, but a better path for humanity would be to push an existing non-patentable treatment (e.g. ivermectin, ozone therapy) into mainstream use?

And investing in the wrong solution creates massive returns, but takes medicine, human health, and medical freedom (my body, my choice) backwards?

This seems like a really interesting problem to solve. Maybe AI can help map the right solution onto novel incentive structures that allow it to interface with the current system more effectively

Maybe I’m totally not getting it (and I’d love your thoughts here!), but what you seem to be proposing is not true “abundance” but AI enhanced capital allocation based on existing markets (which are amoral)

The human element that is missing is the vote we have on which potential future to build. The market should not decide this, but we do have to map that potential future to a market, which would be a really interesting vector to explore here

If the goal is to make a really good investing bot tho, that’s also super cool and valuable. But doesn’t solve the problem described for cases like the one described above

[Will Preble @kingwillxm]

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[Will Preble @kingwillxm]

A strange thing has happened to the word human.

Listen to how people describe themselves now.

Attention as a resource. Relationships as networks. Sleep as data. Thoughts as content. Lives as systems to be hacked.

Each framing is useful in its own lane.

Stack them together, and we start to see the human being as a machine.

Now we've built a machine that thinks. The whole culture is panicking, and the panic isn't really about the machine. It's about the picture. If a human is a machine, and someone builds a better machine, the conclusion is forced: you're obsolete.

The conclusion is only correct if the premise is.

A human is not a machine.

You can't align AI by building more technology. You align AI by remembering what it means to be human.

To break the illusion of the machine frame, we have to get to the heart of the matter.

We have to break the mechanistic view of humanity at its core.

We have to understand that the heart is not a pump.

[Will Preble @kingwillxm]

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[Will Preble @kingwillxm]

@Jason im in