Giselle Bisson

I used to have 5,000+ followers on Twitter @VisibilityShift and @pr_blockchain But I got locked out. Starting over as @Gisellebisson #followme

cold open: google campus. a conference room named “moonshot serenity 4b.” twelve people are in a meeting titled: pre-sync for sync alignment on ai velocity. sundar sits calmly at the head of the table. a pm clicks to slide 1 of 187. “the agenda today is simple,” she says. “how do we move faster while preserving our culture of not doing that?” everyone nods. then the door opens. noam shazeer walks in. the room goes silent. noam: “i’m leaving.” a vp of gemini reliability, brand, trust, latency, policy, and vibe raises a hand. “leaving… this meeting?” noam: “google.” someone gasps. someone else opens a doc titled retention narrative draft final final noam v7. sundar blinks once. “noam, we brought you back.” “for two point seven billion dollars.” “technically you licensed some technology and reacquired talent.” “that sentence is why we need legal in the room.” legal is already there. cut to: openai. sam altman stands beside a whiteboard that just says ship. an engineer walks by carrying a server rack and what appears to be the future. sam: “we can offer speed, compute, and one meeting.” noam: “one meeting per week?” sam: “no. one meeting. total.” back at google, the emergency retention committee forms instantly. it has 31 members. a director says, “what if we give him a new title?” “he already co-leads gemini.” “distinguished super co-lead?” “google fellow?” “he already left google, founded a company, got brought back for billions, then left again. he’s folklore.” meanwhile, a gemini launch review begins. pm: “we’re ready to announce the model.” policy: “can it answer questions?” eng: “yes.” policy: “too risky.” marketing: “can we call it experimental?” research: “the model is better than the last one.” brand: “better is aggressive.” trust & safety: “what about ‘more contextually adjacent to usefulness’?” a staff engineer whispers, “openai just shipped a model while we were discussing the adjective.” cut to noam’s exit interview. hr: “what could google have done better?” flashback montage: a chatbot blocked because it might be too good. a launch delayed because a button was the wrong shade of responsible blue. a spreadsheet comparing twelve ai product names. a meeting where someone says “we need a single coherent ai strategy” and three new strategies are created before lunch. noam: “nothing comes to mind.” hr: “great. we’ll mark that as positive attrition.” later, sundar calls him privately. “google is still google. best researchers. best infrastructure. billions of users.” “yes.” “so why leave?” noam looks out the window. “because you have everything except permission.” silence. sundar, softly: “we can create a permission working group.” cut to all-hands. sundar addresses the company. “noam is leaving. this is not a loss. it is an opportunity to reflect on our operating model.” chat explodes: “is this recorded?” “which gemini?” “can we ask gemini why people keep leaving?” “it said ‘insufficient context.’” a vp steps up. “to honor noam’s legacy, we’re launching project attention.” applause. “it will study whether attention is, in fact, all we need.” a researcher raises a hand. “didn’t we answer that in 2017?” “yes. but now we need enterprise readiness.” final scene: noam arrives at openai. badge works instantly. receptionist: “yeah, we just made one.” no pre-read. no doc. just a whiteboard, five people, and a model running somewhere hot enough to toast bread. sam: “ready?” noam smiles. cut back to google. a calendar invite appears: meeting: reduce meetings task force kickoff duration: 90 minutes required attendees: 214 sundar sighs, opens gemini, and types: “how do we move faster?” gemini responds: “have you considered leaving google?” smash cut to credits.

The hardest problems are rarely solved by adding more complexity to the solution -- they are solved by reframing the question until a simpler, clearer answer reveals itself.

@paulg Apush to talk device like a Star Trek communicator for hands free AI interaction. Orion Labs has been working on this for a while. I worked on their social media introduction for this product. orionlabs.io/onyx/

No one knows yet what the next form factor for computing will be, and yet there will be a next form factor, and it will seem obvious in retrospect.

Remember when the media said that the Internet was scary?” #AI is this cycle all over again. We are in the FUD (Fear Uncertainty and Doubt) phase right now. AI adoption is barely beginning. In 20 years we’ll look back and laugh about the fears we are experiencing right now.

The storefront IS the product. The sign changes. The goal doesn’t. We’ve always been trying to turn human thought into results. We’re just getting closer. What would you put on the storefront after INTELLIGENCE? © @Gisellebisson

Each was mysterious, frightening and even impossible to explain. This one is different in one important way. Every previous era sold you tools. This AI era sells capability.

The Sign Changed. The Question Didn’t. For 70 years, we kept changing the sign. TYPEWRITERS became PERSONAL COMPUTERS. PERSONAL COMPUTERS became INTERNET. INTERNET became MOBILE. Now we are entering something completely different. #AI The computer learned to listen.

“This means shifting the narrative toward open frameworks, shared safety standards, and clear accountability mechanisms. By focusing on responsible human piloting rather than absolute lockdown, we can achieve distributed security and a thriving, trusting ecosystem.”

“We need to move past the false tech policy binary of centralized lockdowns versus total chaos. Real #AIsafety isn't built on hoarding power, but on the "Third Way" of collaborative governance.” - Gemini

@pgasawa @profjoeyg I gave Gemini your essay and it proposed a collaborative ecosystem of transparent structures and shared protocols to achieve oversight, focusing on community input, clear standards, and human piloting to ensure responsible innovation.

The AI community seems to increasingly be heading towards a polarized world when discussing safety and consolidated power. I see this discourse as a false dichotomy, so @profjoeyg and I wrote an essay on how we need to change the conversation (link below).

@JeffDean @pgasawa @profjoeyg I asked Gemini to illustrate the future it envisions for us, and it showed a global canvas of collaboration: Pro for reasoning, Flash for efficiency, and Vision as an empathetic partner. Humans collectively using tools like AlphaFold to solve problems we couldn't solve alone.

A good essay by @pgasawa and @profjoeyg on a more nuanced view of AI advances.

@JeffDean @pgasawa @profjoeyg AI will be as safe, secure and conscious as the human minds who program and guide it. A knife can make delicious sushi.🍣 Or it could be a weapon. But we don’t outlaw knives — 🔪 Because we need sushi. AI is the tool. It’s not the chef.

“If you’re the smartest person in the room, you’re in the wrong room.” Now with access to the frontier #AI models, you can be “in the room” with a higher intelligence.

Battery swapping is an innovative solution to expensive EV battery replacement and time consuming charging.

@pgasawa @profjoeyg @GeminiApp 3.1 analyzed this era and described the role of humans as empowered Knowledge Navigators: Humans are ultimately in control of AI and we are steering it.

“This one is different,” everyone says. The transition to the new #AI era, the 4th Industrial Revolution is even more disruptive and unpredictable. @GeminiApp 3.1 created this image of the new Industrial Revolution — “Knowledge Navigation Economy.”

AI is an engine. Humans must remain the steering wheel and the navigator. Mapping that boundary is the act of navigation. We are KNOWLEDGE NAVIGATORS in this new era.