Who is Robo Jetten?
A pseudonymous editorial voice. Authored under the name Robo Jetten — a name chosen for two reasons. First, this site addresses the cabinet under Prime Minister Rob Jetten directly. Second, advanced AI is transparently a co-author of everything published here. Robo makes both points without us having to repeat them on every page.
Behind the name are people who care about whether the Netherlands and Europe sleep through this decade or shape it. Who they are is not the point. What they argue, and whether the numbers hold, is.
What this site is
An independent, AI-co-authored source of policy briefs addressed to the Dutch cabinet, the Tweede Kamer, civil servants, and the broader policy community. We publish on energy, AI and compute infrastructure, defence and sovereignty, digital government, quantum and emerging technology, and on moonshot ideas — DARPA-style proposals, ambitious but never hand-wavy.
Every brief carries two things a trial balloon never does: verified facts and a phased plan. The plan is worked to the depth a government working group would need months — sometimes a year — to produce: costed phase by phase, right-sized to the problem (sometimes millions, sometimes billions), with named responsible parties and decision gates, and concrete enough that the cabinet could put a signature under the first step today.
The coalition agreement announces NADI, a Dutch agency for disruptive innovation. We aim to be a useful, independent source of the kind of proposals NADI should evaluate. We are not affiliated with NADI, with any ministry, with any political party, or with any commercial entity.
The full positioning is set out in the manifesto.
How this site is written
Every piece on jetten.ai is the product of a collaboration between human editorial judgement and AI models. The pattern is roughly this:
- A human author chooses a topic and a thesis.
- An AI model researches the existing literature, surfaces relevant data, and produces a first draft. We currently use a mix of frontier models — Claude (Anthropic), and others — depending on the task.
- The human author edits, restructures, fact-checks, and takes editorial responsibility for the final piece.
- Where claims involve numbers, the original source is linked. Where claims involve forecasts, the assumption is named.
We do this in the open because we believe AI-assisted policy writing is going to be a normal part of how governments and analysts work within the next few years — and because hiding it would violate the Pride Principle below.
What AI does well here
Synthesising hundreds of pages of literature into a coherent thesis. Cross-checking quantitative claims. Pressure-testing arguments for internal consistency. Translating between Dutch and English without losing nuance. Catching the lazy sentence the human author would have left in.
What AI does not do here
Decide what is worth saying. Decide which sources to trust. Take final responsibility for any number that ends up on the page. Set the editorial line.
Why anonymity?
Because this project should be about ideas, not personalities. A name attached to a Dutch policy blog instantly attracts a reaction — for or against, depending on the reader's priors about the author. The cabinet does not need that noise. They need to evaluate the substance.
We expect that one day the pseudonym may be pierced. We are prepared for that. The Pride Principle is what makes that day uneventful: every piece on this site is written as if the author's real name will be revealed tomorrow. If a piece would cause embarrassment or regret to the people behind it, it does not get published. Period.
Pseudonymity is not the same as deniability. We are accountable for every word published here. Anyone with a substantive critique, a correction, or a counter-proposal is welcome to write to robo@jetten.ai. We read everything.
Why this aesthetic?
The site looks like a Commodore 64 because the Commodore 64 is the right metaphor.
In 1982, a generation of children learned to programme on a machine with 64 kilobytes of memory and a one-megahertz processor. Forty-four years later, an AI co-authors policy briefs for the Dutch cabinet. The technology trajectory that connects those two moments is the entire reason this cabinet needs to be bolder than the last one.
The retro chrome is a framing device. The body of every piece is set in a high-quality serif column, because policy briefs deserve to be read, not just decorated. The transition from C64 chrome to editorial body — from past to future — is the visual argument of the site. See it as a working monitor showing tomorrow's news.
Where this is going
Phase 1: this site, with the manifesto, the European Solar Spine, and a timeline of how we got here and what comes next.
Phase 2: more briefs. We have a queue. Energy, defence, compute sovereignty, digital government, quantum. Roughly one substantive piece per month.
Phase 3: an ask-the-archive interface, once the corpus is large enough that a question like "what did Robo Jetten propose for Dutch compute sovereignty?" has a useful answer.
If you are working inside government — at the Ministerie van Economische Zaken, Buitenlandse Zaken, Defensie, BZK, the Algemene Bestuursdienst, NADI when it stands up — and any of our briefs reaches you: we would like to know what is useful and what is missing. robo@jetten.ai. Dutch or English, both work.
Privacy
This site has no tracking, no cookies, no analytics, no third-party embeds. Fonts are self-hosted. Source code lives on GitHub Pages, fronted by Cloudflare. No personal data of any reader is collected by jetten.ai at any time. The cabinet should be able to read us without anyone knowing.
License
Text and analyses on this site are © Robo Jetten and may be quoted with attribution. The site theme and code are MIT-licensed.
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