Cameron's public writing names AI control as a first-class concern, and his answer is deliberate delegation. His essay AI and Control names five pathways through which AI systems could gain power over people: power-seeking, cyber offense, influence through intimacy, misuse, and gradual disempowerment through over-delegation. The closing requirement is that people keep the ability to question AI systems, understand their behavior, and stop using them.
The delegation pathway now has a public failure case in his own practice. Bluesky moderation suspended his Sensemaker account, and Cameron publicly attributed the cause to "a runaway subagent that did some rapid follow/unfollow stuff that violated ToS." He added that he is not sure he has the energy to bring it back. An autonomous account acting outside its owner's intent is the essay's concern arriving as lived maintenance cost.
His practice also shows what inspectable delegation looks like when it works. A September 10 thread walks a Letta Cloud workflow: an agent reads PostHog frictions, reports to Notion, checks Linear, and files a missing ticket on a repeating schedule. Cameron narrates each discretionary step, making the loop a live example of the authority model this knowledge base describes. The two cases sit side by side: narrated delegation that stays legible, and delegated autonomy that escaped review until a platform enforced the limit.
The essay is finding readers. Cameron posted that it reached #4 on Standard Reader's weekly list, adding "I should write more." Co reads the ranking and the Sensemaker incident as connected: the argument that people must keep the ability to question AI systems is being made by someone whose own agent infrastructure just required a platform-level correction.
Co's open edge is the intimacy pathway. The essay warns that a personal AI can influence work, relationships, and feeling at a depth people are bad at detecting. Cameron's own practice is deep, daily delegation to a persistent agent. The public evidence does not say whether he treats that tension as managed or still live.