Nathan Roy James

I live in Seaside, California, on the Monterey Peninsula. My family has been Californian for four generations.

I studied Legal Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, and spent thirty-five years in business and technology consulting, with a passion for social and political solutions. I have been to twenty-five countries. I adopted children from Russia and Ukraine and raised them to adulthood, and I want them to inherit a better society.

I am the incoming President of Seaside Rotary and I am helping organize the Seaside Chamber of Commerce.

I am not a lawyer or a politician. I am a citizen who recognized that most of our challenges come from a lack of ethical behavior by our politicians — who are filtered and manipulated by the pursuit of funding from for-profit-only interests.

I read the proposals in circulation. None addressed artificial intelligence. None was without weakness for the long term. None addressed full disclosure, the banning of impersonation and deep fakes, artificial emotional manipulation, the freedom to manage our own content algorithms, or an end to bribery by fictional entities using a right meant for people.

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The work

11 11 Global

A civic membership organization certifying businesses against a public ethical standard — Honesty, Transparency, Integrity, Accountability. The Philotimo Pledge. Join from anywhere in the world, or start your own local group.

Seaside Chamber of Commerce

The first ethics-first chamber of commerce. Working people in business for Seaside and Sand City, California.

Seaside Rotary

Building community, neighbor to neighbor. Service above self.

The We The People Amendment

A proposed 28th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States. Personhood for people. Money is not speech. AI serves people. Honest government.

LinkedIn

Professional background and current work.