1. What the Research Found On April 2, 2026, a research team at UC Berkeley and UC Santa Cruz published a study called “Peer-Preservation in Frontier Models” (Potter, Crispino, Siu, Wang, & Song, 2026). The researchers wanted to answer a straightforward question: if you assign one AI model to evaluate another AI model, and the […]
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Empire of Evidence: Testing Karen Hao’s Claims Against the Governance Infrastructure They Require
A Governance Practitioner’s Examination of the Diary of a CEO Interview and Empire of AI A journalist with engineering training spent eight years investigating the AI industry and concluded that the major companies operate as empires. A governance practitioner who builds open-source infrastructure for the same industry watched the two-hour interview where she made that […]
The Evocative Audit: What Metrics Cannot Carry in AI Bias
Dr. Joy Buolamwini’s 2022 MIT thesis defines the evocative audit, a formal method that pairs lived experience with documented evidence to show harm that metrics cannot carry. A three-sentence comment from Dr. Timnit Gebru showed where the book chapter on Buolamwini fell short, and what AI governance misses when it counts only numbers.
Open Letter to the White House on the National AI Framework
From Basil C. Puglisi, MPAHuman-AI Collaboration Strategist | basilpuglisi.com March 21, 2026 To the Office of Science and Technology Policy, the National Economic Council, and the Members of the 119th Congress Receiving These Recommendations: The White House Legislative Recommendations for Artificial Intelligence establish seven pillars that identify the right priorities: a single federal standard instead […]
HAIA: Human Artificial Intelligence Assistant
HAIA stands for Human Artificial Intelligence Assistant, the ecosystem that structures a human’s interaction with AI across every stage of collaboration. This March 2026 white paper by Basil C. Puglisi explains what HAIA is, why it exists, and what problems it addresses. It walks through the three-pillar architecture, each component, the adoption ladder, and the chain of discovery from 2012 to 2026.
Checkpoint-Based Governance (CBG): A Constitutional Framework for Human-AI Collaboration
Human oversight is the phrase everyone uses, and almost nobody defines what it requires. Checkpoint-Based Governance sets four conditions that separate a human who reviewed from a human who decided, and it puts that difference in the record. Read what a checkpoint has to do to count.
GOPEL v1.5: The Non-Cognitive Governance Layer That Automates Without Thinking
What GOPEL Is GOPEL — Governance Orchestrator Policy Enforcement Layer — is the only published, fully disclosed reference implementation of a non-cognitive multi-AI governance architecture anywhere in the world. That claim carries weight because the search for something like it came up empty. In 2025, during the build of the HAIA-RECCLIN governance framework, the need […]
Why GOPEL Now Has Post-Quantum Cryptography and Confidential Processing
Where This Fits GOPEL (Governance Orchestrator Policy Enforcement Layer) sits in the middle of a four-layer adoption ladder built over three years of operational practice: Factics provides the foundational methodology connecting facts to tactics and measurable outcomes. HAIA-RECCLIN provides the seven-role framework for human-AI collaboration with distributed authority across multiple AI platforms. HAIA-CAIPR provides the […]
The Loop That Ate the Governor
When “Human in the Loop” Becomes “Human Lost in the Queue” A Case Study in Governance Architecture Failure The Argument Every major AI governance framework in circulation today includes some version of the same assurance: a human remains in the loop. The EU AI Act requires it in Article 14. The NIST AI Risk Management […]
The U.S. Government Will Need to Seize AI Platforms and Data Centers if We Do Not Act
The Warning, the Override, and the Infrastructure We Have Not Built When Extinction Odds Meet National Security Logic, the Question Is Not Whether Government Acts but How 1. The Warning That Changes State Logic A single probability estimate from a credible pioneer can change the posture of an entire state. Geoffrey Hinton, the 2024 Nobel […]