Somewhere inside Malacañang Palace, there is a comforting belief that corruption can be outsmarted by software. Not confronted. Not dismantled. Outcoded. Just add blockchain, say transparency a few times, roll out a pilot, and suddenly decades of theft, patronage, and selective justice politely excuse themselves and leave. It never works that way, but we pretend it does. Yes, Filipinos might
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The danger isn’t that the machines will become sentient. The danger is that we’ll stop acting like we are. We built machines to think for us. Then we built better ones to think faster. Now we’re teaching them to think without us, and to smile while doing it. Academics call it a “paradigm shift.” I call it a slow-motion dismantling
You can encrypt the records, but you cannot encrypt conscience. And without conscience, every revolution fails before it begins. The Gospel of the Gadget Every few years, there is a new messiah in a box. The computer was going to clean the bureaucracy. The internet was going to democratize truth. The cloud was going to cut red tape. Then AI