I was just in Japan. In Japan, they have this tradition called Shinto. And the Shinto gods are not like the super-intelligent god. They call them kami , which is a local spirit of a forest or a river, and just cares about the relationship around that place. In Taiwan, we say Tǔ Dì Gōng or Tǔ Dì Pó, which means more or less the same idea: a spiritual local steward. And so if we train an AI system not to optimize one single number, but rather to be attentive to the relational health of this community, this river, this forest, then it is bounded by the place, the culture, and care.