AI Governance Has a Language Problem — and Insiders Are Saying It Out Loud

Bluesky has become the place where AI policy insiders say what they cannot say in papers or institutional posts, and the post that circulated this week ^[10] was unusually precise about a problem the field has circled for years without naming directly. The claim — that "AI ethics" is risk management and "AI governance" is compliance, and that neither term has done the intellectual work it implies — was not new as a critique. What was new was its author writing it plainly for an audience of peers who immediately…