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Basil C. Puglisi

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Basil C. Puglisi's AI governance work across multiple AI platforms, where a named human holds binding authority at defined checkpoints in everything published.

AI Copyright Debate and the Inevitable Knowledge Transmission Argument for LLMs and Future AI

November 9, 2026 by Basil C. Puglisi Leave a Comment

Infographic of five stages where AI copyright gets decided, from acquisition to outputs, with one hedge line.

Copyright protects expression, and the AI training cases now ask whether it also reaches what people and machines learn from it.

Basil C. Puglisi names the Inevitable Knowledge Transmission Argument and tests it against Bartz v. Anthropic, Thomson Reuters v. ROSS, GEMA v. OpenAI, and the 56 amicus briefs filed in the OpenAI litigation. The article separates acquisition, copying, training, memorization, and outputs, sets out two ways to pay creators without licensing learning, and records the strongest dissent against its own position.

Filed Under: AI Artificial Intelligence, AI Governance, AI Policy Regulation, AI Risk, Business, Content Marketing, Data & CRM, Enterprise AI, Multi-AI Governance, Policy & Research, Thought Leadership Tagged With: AI and national security, AI copyright, AI training data, Bartz v. Anthropic, Basil C. Puglisi, collective licensing, fair use, GEMA v. OpenAI, In re OpenAI copyright litigation, Inevitable Knowledge Transmission Argument, LLM training, Section 115 compulsory license, The Minds That Bend the Machine, Thomson Reuters v. ROSS Intelligence

A Call for an AI Disability Standard

November 8, 2026 by Basil C. Puglisi Leave a Comment

Navy cover reading A Call for an AI Disability Standard, with the full subtitle in gold beneath the title

The protections exist, and the person has no way to invoke them that the next institution recognizes.

This third working paper in the AIDA series proposes a notice, written as a cease and desist, with a validation behind it built the way the parking placard is built. It maps where the notice has force today in the United States and the European Union, carries the full case against its own proposal, and puts 28 questions to the disability community.

Filed Under: AI Artificial Intelligence, AI Governance, AI Policy Regulation, AI Risk, Augmented Intelligence, Business, Enterprise AI, Multi-AI Governance, Policy & Research, Thought Leadership, Workflow, Working Papers Tagged With: ABLE accounts, AI detection, AI Disability Standard, AI disclosure, AIDA, Americans with Disabilities Act, Artificially Intelligent Disability Assistance, assistive technology, cease and desist, Checkpoint-Based Governance, disability rights, GDPR, parking placard, reasonable accommodation, smart glasses

NIST’s Ten Agent Identity Tenets: What Checkpoint-Based Governance Already Carried

November 6, 2026 by Basil C. Puglisi Leave a Comment

Dark header reading NIST's Ten Agent Identity Tenets, What Checkpoint-Based Governance Already Carried, ten squares

NIST published ten agent identity tenets on October 27, 2026. Nine were already in a public record that began in 2012.

This article lays the ten tenets against Checkpoint-Based Governance, the February 2026 GOPEL specification and code, and the Responsible AI desk that was publishing before the tenets appeared. Five match in full, four in part, and one, the agent’s own credential, is defined in the record and not yet issued. The reader gets the dates, the quotes, and the table to check them.

Filed Under: AI Artificial Intelligence, AI Governance, AI Risk, Business, Enterprise AI, Multi-AI Governance, Responsible AI, Thought Leadership Tagged With: agent authorization, agent identity management, AI Governance, AI provider plurality, audit trail, Checkpoint-Based Governance, Factics, GOPEL, HAIA Agents, Human-in-the-Loop, NCCoE, NIST agent identity tenets, non-cognitive enforcement, Responsible AI

The Liability Counter-Pressure Reaches the Banks: AI Agent Risk Is Being Assigned to Consumers

November 5, 2026 by Basil C. Puglisi Leave a Comment

Diagram of three sets of terms that assign AI agent errors to the customer, with four sources of counter-pressure above them

Agent providers and two major banks now assign an AI agent’s errors to the customer.

The article reads the Instinct terms, the Chase Digital Services Agreement, and Wells Fargo’s Section 15, which takes effect November 24, 2026, against the federal law that limits what such terms can settle. It sets Lead Bank’s proposed waterfall and the OCC’s November 4 examiner resource beside them, and names the five records that will decide where the first contested loss stays.

Filed Under: AI Artificial Intelligence, AI Policy Regulation, AI Risk, Multi-AI Governance, Policy & Research, Thought Leadership Tagged With: agentic AI, AI agent liability, AI agents, AI Governance, AI risk, AI Risk Economy, AIDA, Checkpoint-Based Governance, consumer banking, Electronic Fund Transfer Act, JPMorgan Chase, Lead Bank, OCC, Regulation E, Wells Fargo

Agents or Agency: Transparency Is Success

October 16, 2026 by Basil C. Puglisi 3 Comments

Agents or Agency title over a blue automated factory line beside a human hand stamping a document in amber

Automation and human checkpoints each have a place and a rule, and the failure is selling one as the other.

Basil C. Puglisi frames Responsible AI as the factory, where the machine checks the machine, and AI Governance as the handmade product, where a named human holds binding authority at checkpoints. Drawing on enforcement actions, court cases, and research on AI labels, the article sets out where each model belongs, what transparency costs, and how European rules, SEC enforcement, Colorado’s new law, and New York’s court rule reach the same line by different routes. It proposes an inspection mark that shows the customer who answers.

Filed Under: AI Artificial Intelligence, AI Governance, Augmented Intelligence, Business, Data & CRM, Multi-AI Governance, Thought Leadership, Workflow Tagged With: Agent Washing, agentic AI, Agents or Agency, AI accountability, AI Governance, AI Labels, AI Transparency, AI Washing, Checkpoint-Based Governance, Colorado SB 26-189, EU AI Act Article 50, human oversight, New York Part 161, Responsible AI

HAIA Agents: From the Definition Problem to Running Code

October 13, 2026 by Basil C. Puglisi 2 Comments

Side by Side of Agent Model 1 is Responsible AI with no human review of output, Agent Model 2 reaches AI Governance at signed checkpoints, and Agent Model 3 is the human performing every step.

The definition problem of January 2026 now runs as code.

This rebuild of the HAIA-RECCLIN Agent Architecture Specification introduces the Alpha release of Agent Model 1, Responsible AI written as code that passes nothing without a gate, and Agent Model 2, the hybrid that runs through to AI Governance at a signed human checkpoint after every role. It revisits Agent Model 3, Manual Human AI Governance, which built both releases, and states plainly what the Alpha does not claim.

Filed Under: AI Artificial Intelligence, AI Governance, Augmented Intelligence, Business, Code & Technical Builds, Data & CRM, Multi-AI Governance, Thought Leadership, White Papers Tagged With: Agent Model 1, Agent Model 2, Agent Model 3, AI agents, AI Governance, Basil Puglisi, CAIPR, CBG Gateway, CBG Model 1 Runner, Checkpoint-Based Governance, GOPEL, HAIA Agents, HAIA-RECCLIN, human oversight, Responsible AI

Narrative Is Not Custody: Why AI Compliance Needs Traversable Rules

October 11, 2026 by Basil C. Puglisi 3 Comments

AI Compliance Needs Traversable Rules, Not Narrative

A fluent explanation is not a record, and regulated AI decisions need a record.

This article argues that AI compliance starts with accountability, with policy graphs and solvers as one route to a traversable trail. It reports what GraphCompliance, solver-backed legal analysis, and two recent preprints find, maps the GDPR, EU AI Act, and Regulation B duties, and sets out the two human checkpoints that turn a trail into AI Governance.

Filed Under: AI Artificial Intelligence, Business, Code & Technical Builds, Multi-AI Governance, Policy & Research, Thought Leadership, Workflow Tagged With: AI compliance, AI Governance, Checkpoint-Based Governance, decision record, EU AI Act, explainable AI, Factics, GDPR Article 22, GraphCompliance, knowledge graphs, neuro-symbolic AI, policy graph, Regulation B, regulatory compliance, SMT solvers

If You’re So Intelligent, Why Do You Use AI?

October 9, 2026 by Basil C. Puglisi Leave a Comment

A hand sets a bottle down on a chair armrest at dusk, a phone glowing on the table and a grill behind it v2

The question every AI user hears at the table, answered with a story.

Teresa drafts grant proposals with a machine. Her brother-in-law Dale has never typed a prompt and asks why someone intelligent would. Her answer runs through Tron, Jurassic Park, and two versions of The Shining, and lands on the three old reasons people refuse a new tool: jealousy, fear, and prejudice. Verified history, invented people, one backyard argument.

Filed Under: AI Artificial Intelligence, Publishing, Thought Leadership, Video Tagged With: AI adaptation, AI slop, AI story, anti-AI arguments, Augmented Intelligence, human judgment, Jurassic Park CGI, Merriam-Webster slop, Phil Tippett, The Shining miniseries, Tron 1982, why do you use AI

Physical AI Is the Next Platform Shift, and Chat Was Only the On-Ramp

October 6, 2026 by Basil C. Puglisi Leave a Comment

Chart of six operating modes behind an autonomy claim, from onboard autonomy to teleoperated task execution

Chat made AI legible to every board, and robots that see, plan, and act now make it consequential.

Frontier capital now treats robot learning, autonomous science, and new interfaces as the next compounding domains beyond language and code. Tesla’s Optimus and Robotaxi record shows how far demonstrations still sit from deployment, so this analysis sets out how to fund physical AI pilots with preregistered measures, a classical baseline, engineered safety, an operating-mode ledger, and a named human who decides.

Filed Under: AI Artificial Intelligence, Multi-AI Governance

What Would Education Look Like With an AI Literacy Program Based on Proven Methods?

October 5, 2026 by Basil C. Puglisi 2 Comments

Infographic comparing two AI tutor trials, one where grades fell on a default setting and one built on learning research

Education already owns the methods that make AI support learning.

This is what an AI literacy program built on them would look like, with a named human at every checkpoint. It opens with the ground rules before any assignment uses AI, runs every session through one checkpoint sequence, and measures each learner with the tools removed. Three programs carry it from a high school classroom to a professional certificate.

Filed Under: AI Artificial Intelligence, Conferences & Education, Educational Activities, Multi-AI Governance, Policy & Research, Thought Leadership Tagged With: active learning, AI Governance, AI in education, AI Literacy, AI literacy program, AI tutor, associate degree, BOCES, career and technical education, Checkpoint-Based Governance, cognitive offloading, Human Enhancement Quotient, metacognition, professional certificate, scaffolding

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