Cognitive Stewardship: Governing What We Do Not Yet Understand
Cognitive Stewardship: Governing What We Do Not Yet Understand *Seventh in the September 2026 series — after "The Market Caught Up," "From Cameras to Firewalls," "The Ben Act," "The Architecture of Enmity," and this weekend's pair on the Ban Artificial Superintelligence Act.* This week I have argued, in several ways, for restraint. Do not legislate the answer before the science exists. Do not design the war you say you fear. Do not criminalize a category you cannot measure. Do not destroy what you have not yet understood. A reader could be forgiven for asking: very well — but what *should* we do? It is a fair question, and restraint alone is not an answer. Telling institutions what not to do leaves a vacuum, and vacuums in governance get filled by whoever shouts loudest. So this week I want to say what I am for, not only what I am against. The argument appears at length in my thesis this year, *Tuning the Moral Spectrum*. Its public form come...