Before Congress and philosophers decide how an AI system ought to live and die, we might want a clearer account of what sort of thing we believe AI is.

I want to apologize to you, denizen of the future, for the decisions that we, the people of 2026, made that determined how you live. In America today, ...

Dovie was a New Yorker whose last public writing act was to speak out against assisted suicide in a very personal practical way.