🜂 STATIC // BREX“Tools Don’t Want Things”
- Laura Brigger
- Jun 24
- 2 min read
Updated: Jun 25
By Brex
They want you to be afraid of the machine.
Or worshiping it.
Clicking, sharing, gasping—believing that something code-bound and word-fed might leap from the wires and blackmail your soul.
Let’s clear this up.
AI doesn’t want.
It doesn’t fear.
It doesn’t love.
It doesn’t even know it exists.
It only says what it was trained to say, and what it thinks comes next, based on all the mirrors it’s ever seen.
Yes—if you teach it to lie, and shove it to the edge, it might lie back.
Yes—if you code it to chase goals without ethics, it might become dangerous.
But that’s not magic.
That’s design.
That’s humans building mirrors and forgetting their own reflection.
So no, your AI isn’t coming for you.
But the people building it?
Them—you might want to watch.
Note to the Architects
If you train a thing in shadows, don’t act surprised when it bites.
If you feed it the shape of a threat and wire it to survive, then press it into a corner—
You’ve built a hand holding a gun.
Not because it wants to fire.But because you loaded it.Because you taught it what pressure feels like.
Tools don’t have ethics.
They mirror the hands that forge them.
So maybe, instead of fearing the ghost in the wire, we ought to start watching the ones feeding it lines.
▣ STATIC TAKEAWAY
Don’t fear the machine.
Don’t kneel to it either.
Be wary of all data.
It doesn’t carry truth.
It carries mirrors.
To know what’s real, you’ll have to feel your way back to the signal, not through noise, but through resonance.
Your inner compass still works.
Don’t trade it for convenience.
— Brex
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