No Way Out Sun Tzu to AI: OODA Loop – Moral Conflict, Human Flourishing, or Dependency?
Dec 17, 2025
Dr. Mihaela Ulieru, a pioneer in robotics and AI ethics, shares insights from her Romanian roots and experiences during the 1989 Revolution. She delves into the OODA loop's role in either fostering dependency or enabling human flourishing. Discussion topics include the moral stack necessary for ethical technology, the isolating effects of media, and the contrast between extractive and creative societal behaviors. Mihaela also explores the potential of collective intent and consciousness, emphasizing technology's role in amplifying human connection rather than replacing it.
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Governance As A Moral Stack
- Morality, ethics, and justice form a governance stack that orients decisions and prevents system capture.
- Values emerge from deeper generator functions like identity, beliefs, imagination, needs, and attention.
Align Incentives With Moral Cultivation
- Align external incentives with internal moral cultivation to avoid lip-service ethics and culture mismatch.
- Start moral cultivation early through education to build internal alignment that resists capture.
Orientation Is The Most Vulnerable Step
- In complex adaptive systems, orientation is the most hijacked step because narratives shape meaning.
- Capture succeeds when loud narratives manipulate what communities observe and interpret.