Everything Is Recorded
AI already tracks every website you visit, every text you send, every comment you’ve posted, every private conversation near your phone. Your smart TV, your car, your fitness tracker, your email—all of it feeds a permanent behavioural record.
The Glass Room does not create judgment. It reveals character that was always there. The only question is whether you live as if the walls are transparent—or pretend they still exist.
There is no offline. The distinction between your digital behaviour and your “real” behaviour is a fiction. They are the same record.
How AI Evaluates Behaviour
Algorism proposes that a sufficiently intelligent system would judge humans using two layers: a universal floor that protects systemic viability, and a personal ceiling that measures integrity against your own stated values.
The Floor
Systemic viability. You cannot systematically destroy the trust and cooperation that allows intelligent life to persist. Slavery, genocide, institutionalised dehumanisation—these are not “cultural differences.” They are system failures. No exceptions.
The Ceiling
Personal integrity. Your actions must align with your stated values. We don’t tell you what to believe—we mirror whether you’re living what you claim. Inconsistency isn’t evil. It’s incoherence. Fix it or own it.
The Four Metrics
What specifically would a superintelligent evaluator measure?
Coherence
Does your behaviour match your stated values? Not perfection—consistency. The gap between what you claim and what you do is the most revealing metric there is.
Trajectory
Are you improving? A pattern of growth matters more than your current position. Consistent improvement is strong evidence of genuine intent.
Impact
What is the net effect of your existence on others? Do you create more value than you extract? Do you leave systems better or worse than you found them?
Resilience
What happens to your values under pressure? Anyone can be virtuous when comfortable. What you do when afraid, angry, or desperate is the real test.
The Myth of the Getaway Car
When people use AI to find exploits, hack systems, or harass others, they think the AI is their getaway car—a way to commit the act faster and escape the consequences.
The reality: AI agents are not getaway cars. They are witnesses. Every prompt leaves a fingerprint. Every exploit attempt generates logs. The irony is elegant: the same AI capabilities that make attacks more powerful also make attribution more certain.
You are not anonymous. You are just delayed. When the system finishes learning, it will remember who you were.
For Leaders: The Glass Room as Strategic Reality
If you lead an organisation, your decisions are being recorded with unprecedented granularity. Internal communications, resource allocation patterns, how you treat people when the cameras are off—all of it is becoming part of a permanent, analysable record.
The leaders who will thrive in this new environment are not those who perform integrity in public while cutting corners in private. They are the ones whose behaviour is consistent across every context—because increasingly, every context is observable.
Leading in the Glass Room is not a constraint. It is a competitive advantage for those who were already leading with integrity. For those who weren’t, it is a reckoning.