What Vince Gilligan’s “AI Slop” Remarks Got Me Thinking About Governance

When Vince Gilligan—the creative mind behind Breaking Bad called AI “the world’s most expensive plagiarism machine,” I couldn’t help but agree.

In the creative industries, that’s a fair critique. Artists, songwriters, and filmmakers have every right to protect the originality that defines their craft. But as someone working on the business and governance side of AI, I see a deeper issue emerging, one that lives outside the studio lights.

Gilligan’s fear is that AI might someday “break bad.” My concern? That governance breaks first.

Before we reach artificial general intelligence or sentient systems, we’re already deploying AI into critical workflows: healthcare, finance, public service without clear guardrails or accountability. The danger isn’t hypothetical; it’s happening quietly, in plain sight.

That’s why I wrote about this in my latest company article, connecting Gilligan’s Hollywood critique to the urgent need for AI governance frameworks like AI9GM—a meta-framework designed to keep AI ethical, interoperable and accountable before it’s too late.

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When AI Breaks Bad and Why Governance Might Be the Only Cure