Autopen to AI: How Automation Erodes Duty, Rights, and Responsibility

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This morning, we break down the Autopen scandal and its deeper implications—connecting it to AI’s growing role in hiring, education, and mass layoffs. From bureaucrats signing laws they don’t read to AI replacing real human judgment, this is about more than convenience. It’s about how automation erodes personal responsibility and undermines our rights.

For every natural right, there’s a corresponding duty—and the true purpose of that right is to authorize you to fulfill that duty. When we abdicate those duties to machines, whether it's signing bills or evaluating job applicants, we lose the very authority that underpins our freedom.

Join us for a hard look at the unintended consequences of handing everything over to automation.

Talking Points:

Quick recap: The Autopen scandal—what it is and why it matters.

Autopen as precursor to AI: automation for convenience vs. erosion of responsibility.

AI’s effects on:

Learning outcomes (student reliance on AI tools instead of developing skills)

Hiring practices (algorithmic bias, depersonalization, deskilling HR)

Layoffs (AI replacing not just physical labor but intellectual labor)

Framing in rights and duties:

Natural rights exist to authorize individuals to fulfill their duties.

Abdicating duty removes both responsibility and authority.

Closing thoughts: Practical steps to maintain personal responsibility in an AI-driven world.