Basil C. Puglisi

Digital Strategy, Content, and AI Since 2009

Multi-AI Governance

Every piece in this category passed through a human checkpoint before publication. Multiple AI platforms contributed research, drafting, and challenge. A named person approved, modified, or rejected the result and answers for it. That is the line this work argues for, so it is the line this work is held to.

Human-AI Collaboration Needs More Than a Human in the Loop

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Human oversight of automated systems is older than AI, and current AI practice still falls short of it.

This paper traces human oversight and accountability from the cybernetics literature of 1948 to Article 14 of the EU AI Act, then separates Responsible AI from AI Governance. It sets out Checkpoint-Based Governance, where a named human holds binding authority to accept, modify, or reject an AI output and leaves a record, and it proposes the studies that would test it. It closes on the Growth OS, a future of work in which AI amplifies people instead of replacing them.

A Year Ago I Told You AGI Was Hype. Superintelligence Is Further Off Than Sold, and It Will Not End Us.

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The machine is never the one who answers for what it does.

A September 2025 essay argued that AGI talk is usually about money and not reality. This September, Andrew Ng, Timnit Gebru, and Emily Bender reached the same point about responsibility from opposite sides of the AI debate. The piece separates real capability from the claims stacked on it, argues that superintelligence is further off than sold and will not end us, and moves from a human chain of responsibility to a real checkpoint.

When AI Policy Becomes an Accessibility Barrier

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If AI is a disability tool, are the rules restricting it unethical at best and illegal at worst?

This companion working paper maps which United States laws reach which institutions and classifies six types of AI policy risk, from outright bans to detection tools. It works a pending smart-glasses case, compares the EU AI Act, and closes with a model accommodation clause any institution can adopt.

When AI Becomes Assistive Technology

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A blind professional asks AI to describe a chart. The paper asks whether that use is assistive technology.

This working paper names the function Artificially Intelligent Disability Assistance (AIDA) and gives a three-prong test for when a use of general-purpose AI qualifies. It runs seven cases, from blindness and speech loss to post-traumatic stress, and it names the case the test excludes and the dissent it has to answer.

What Is “Verified AI”?

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Verified AI is not a settled category, and its history explains why.

This working paper traces the term from the verification of knowledge-based systems in 1988 through the 2016 formal definition, shows how that concept shaped the HAIA Ecosystem, and sets out a practitioner definition built on records a human can review and accept. It closes with the 2026 trend and how the Proof-of-Control standard contrasts with it.

Humans Are Optional When Defining AI Governance for ISO, According to the U.S. Technical Advisory Group

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A standards body just wrote down that AI governance can exist without a human in control.

In September 2026 the U.S. TAG to ISO/TC 258 answered a public comment on the draft AI standard for project management. It accepted two editorial corrections and rejected the one that would have put binding human authority and attributable accountability inside the definition. This is the filing, the four reasons for the rejection, and why a definition without a governor fails the moral test the public is already applying.

What AI Transformation Actually Requires

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AI products can be purchased. AI transformation has to be built.

This paper reframes fifteen commonly cited requirements for AI transformation as operational management requirements, from data provenance and purpose to decision traceability and value realization. It shows why automation and observation cannot serve as the sole control on consequential work, and how named human checkpoints close that gap.

The AI HOAX Distraction: Safety, Money, and Why You Can’t Tell Which Is Driving

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Six positions in nine days, and every one of them fits the speaker’s balance sheet.

In September 2026 four frontier labs called for a slowdown, the President called the whole thing a hoax, and two of the largest companies in AI said the market already handles it. This piece argues the slowdown is not evidence that governance is working. It is evidence that economic incentives are still in charge, with the sign flipped. Readers get the dated exposure curve behind the calls, the reason liability cannot currently steer, and a narrower proposal than pacing the frontier.

HAIA-SMART Copy: The Social Media AI Rating Tool, and Why Good Posts Still Go Unread

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Good posts still go unread, and HAIA-SMART Copy shows the author why.

HAIA-SMART Copy is a free prompt that scores social media copy across six pillars for 30 points, revises it, and holds all output until the author approves. It then writes native text for eight platforms, and the full tool runs in the post with a PDF and a .md file.

HAIA-SMART Creative: The Social Media AI Rating Tool, and Why Every AI Visual Looks the Same

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Every AI visual looks the same, and HAIA-SMART Creative gives the image a job.

HAIA-SMART Creative is a free prompt that evaluates the images, infographics, and carousels an author already has and writes paste-ready prompts for the visuals the author needs. It ties every visual to its post through the Visual Hook Rule, and the full tool runs in the post with a PDF and a .md file.