Comment by owenmarshall

That's an interesting wrinkle that is rather tough to work through.

To me, journaling your intent in a private journal, whether that's an Apple Journal/Note or a Moleskine in your drawer, feels qualitatively different in some way. But I'm not sure why.

So "I'm going to shoot up the police station" written in your own journal feels somewhat different than "I'm going to shoot up the police station" said to a system that might be able to _interpret_ or _act_ on what was said in some way. Did I just give AI a legal duty, or even a soul I didn't think it had before? I've written up about three or four "what about this, what about that" and deleted them all.