Sheila Jasanoff

Foreword

By Edo Segal

The decision I made fastest was the one that deserved the most deliberation.

Trivandrum. Twenty engineers. A hundred dollars a month per seat. I walked into that room with a plan to transform how my team works. By Friday, the transformation was real — measurable, repeatable, extraordinary. I wrote about it in *You On AI* as a breakthrough. I still believe it was.

But Sheila Jasanoff's work introduced a question I had not thought to ask: Who decided that this transformation should happen to these people, and on what authority?

Not legal authority. I had that. Not technical authority. The results spoke for themselves. Democratic authority. The kind that comes from the people whose professional identities, daily routines, and sense of what their expertise means