AI will not define our future; the discipline and principles we impose on it will.

Humanity has spent millennia pursuing truth. Now AI accelerates that search—processing vast data and even transforming personnel evaluations by exposing biases and revealing patterns we miss. As AI expands its influence, we face a choice: shape it responsibly or risk losing control of the tools we created.

U.S. patent application figures trended again modestly down in 2021. The preliminary total of 277,500 applications is again down from the...