About E.J.

I have spent two decades in Silicon Valley wearing two very different hats.

As a foot soldier, I used to write code, then design architecture for new product, then draw product concept for the future. For about 10 years, as something harder to name, I found myself in rooms full of people, who shape the future of technology. It's in those rooms decisions get made. Later those decisions would appear in press releases, policy papers, and history books.

I watched how consensus forms usually prior to the meeting, how power moves during the meeting, and how the future gets decided by people who are simultaneously brilliant and wrong in ways they won't discover for years.

I am an engineer by training, an MBA by necessity, a published novelist twice over, a watercolorist, a violinist learning piano, a cook, a traveler, a strict mother, a loving wife, and an obedient daughter.

EJ Says is where all of that collides.

I write about AI, ethics, and society, specifically about the mismatch between how machines reason and how humans actually live. Not from the outside looking in, but from someone who has seen both the code and the room where the code's future was decided.

The interesting question is not whether AI will destroy us. The interesting question is what kind of world we are building, and whether anyone is asking the right questions.

Most high-stakes decisions are not made by the smartest minds in the room. They are made by people like us.

Which means the questions belong to us too.

I am trying to ask them here.

If that sounds like your kind of trouble, subscribe. If you want to reach me, drop me a note at: ejwillwrite@gmail.com