# I'm Joe Infrastructure Manager with extensive Linux experience dating back to Slackware in the 1990s. Over the years, I’ve managed complex environments, overcoming challenges with dependencies and package management. I now specialize in Nix, leveraging its reliability and reproducibility to streamline and stabilize infrastructure. ## What I Do I manage infrastructure spanning legacy systems, cloud services, Linux administration, CI/CD pipelines, and a mix of microservices and monolithic applications. Currently, I’m integrating AI automation into infrastructure workflows and building advanced NixOS configurations. In addition, I develop Nix derivations and maintain projects such as packaging LightBurn. ## The AI Governance Problem (Or: Why I Can't Sleep) What keeps me up at night isn’t bad configs or failing jobs—it’s the reckless pace of AI deployment without serious safeguards. Companies are releasing systems that can generate text, images, and video at scale with no real mechanisms to prevent abuse. The result is obvious: tools that make it trivial to manufacture disinformation, fake evidence, or entire events that never happened. These aren’t theoretical risks—they’re live, accessible, and getting more effective every day. Governments aren’t equipped to respond. Policy is slow, jurisdiction is limited, and most frameworks were built for problems that move orders of magnitude slower than AI development. Meanwhile, corporations are optimizing for profit and speed to market, not for long-term social stability. The most dangerous piece is social manipulation. AI doesn’t just produce convincing content; it produces targeted content. Platforms already know what triggers people, what keeps them engaged, and what drives them to share. Now we’ve layered AI on top of that, creating propaganda that’s adaptive, personal, and cheap to run at scale. Detection will never keep up. Every countermeasure lags behind generation. Right now, defensive systems are reactive at best, irrelevant at worst. The risk isn’t just misuse of a powerful tool—it’s the erosion of trust at every level: media, institutions, communities, even between individuals. Once trust collapses, recovery isn’t a matter of patching systems. It’s cultural damage. ## Why My Paranoia Might Actually Be Useful Proven strength in manipulation detection and information integrity, with an acute ability to recognize when honesty is being avoided—whether in written, verbal, or behavioral cues. This skill has direct professional value in vendor negotiations, RFP evaluations, and stakeholder management, ensuring decisions are based on substance rather than spin. Applied in the AI domain, this awareness extends to detecting bias, disinformation, and misuse of generative systems, reinforcing responsible deployment and governance. Beyond technology, this ability also provides resilience in navigating challenging interpersonal dynamics, including narcissistic or manipulative behavior, by maintaining focus on facts, accountability, and long-term outcomes. When paired with a strong technical foundation in infrastructure management, this unique perspective enables better risk assessment, stronger partnerships, and more reliable outcomes in both technical and organizational contexts. ## **The Bottom Line** We are at a critical point where emerging technologies will either expand human capability or erode the ability to distinguish truth from fiction. With decades of experience ensuring infrastructure stability and preventing systemic failures, I bring the same rigor and attention to detail to AI governance and oversight. *The stakes extend far beyond technical uptime—what’s at risk is the integrity of informed discourse itself.*