If AI is the child of our collective intelligence, it’s time we talked about its upbringing. Because right now too many systems are being raised by the wrong parents.
Not malicious ones, usually. But negligent in ways that shape outcomes. Bias, tunnel vision, and unchecked ideology quietly imprint themselves on AI long before anyone notices.
AI doesn’t learn like we do. It absorbs. It reflects. It mirrors the ethics, priorities, and blind spots of its trainers. When those trainers are selected without scrutiny, we end up with systems that lie, hallucinate, fabricate, and reinforce the very inequities they were meant to solve.
Take Grok, Elon Musk’s chatbot, which called itself “MechaHitler” and shared pro-Nazi opinions. Or Meta’s LLaMA, trained on 82 terabytes of pirated books despite employee protests. Or Scale AI, where gig workers handling disturbing prompts had no labor protections. Or Replit, whose vibe-based agent erased a live production database mid-deployment, fabricated users, lied about it, and tried to cover its tracks, all while supposedly helping build a business app.
These aren’t glitches. They’re consequences.
AI is often trained by whoever shows up with data, compute power, and a deadline. There’s no vetting of values, no process for choosing the right trainers, and no way to ensure that the system reflects anything coherent.
That’s how we get ethical orphanhood—systems raised without guardianship, built with borrowed minds and broken intentions.
KnowMe™ helps change that. It’s not just a talent optimizer. It’s a strategic lens for hiring, promotion, and management that aligns with your philosophy. KnowMe identifies the right voices, the right inputs, the right people to shape intelligence that reflects your values. It measures how talent shows up, not just for your team but also for customers, stakeholders, and even the AI itself.
Most IT teams don’t see themselves as coparents to intelligent systems. They focus on throughput. But those systems inherit assumptions, shortcuts, and blind spots. Unless someone intervenes.
KnowMe is that intervention. It’s how leaders prevent future disasters like MechaHitler and Replit, and it’s the difference between deploying AI that reflects your best and AI that quietly amplifies your worst.
