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 […]
Conferences & Education
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 […]
From AI Policy to Financial System Design What US Dept of Treasury’s AI Innovation Series Actually Signals
Treasury’s March 2026 AI Innovation Series is not a standalone announcement. It is the operational phase of a two-year sequence that now treats AI adoption as a financial stability issue, a competitiveness issue, and a regulatory design issue at the same time. Failure to Adopt Is Now a Risk Category Treasury’s March 20, 2026, announcement […]
From Literacy to Labor Market Architecture: What the Department of Labor’s AI Announcement Actually Builds
The DOL Make America AI Ready initiative launched the public facing first mile of a worker first AI workforce agenda, connecting the AI Literacy Framework, America’s Talent Strategy, and the White House AI Action Plan into a single operational delivery stack. The Department of Labor’s March 24, 2026 announcement looks small on the surface. A […]
Measuring Augmented Intelligence
Theoretical Foundations and Empirical Development of the Human Enhancement Quotient (HEQ) and Augmented Intelligence Score (AIS) Executive Summary (PDF here for Mobile Users) Augmented intelligence, as defined by Gartner, is the recognized partnership model of humans and AI enhancing cognitive performance together. Organizations have invested heavily in that model. No cross-platform, behavior-anchored, governance-integrated instrument exists […]
GOPEL: The Code Behind the Policy
How a Non-Cognitive Governance Agent Went from Specification to Working Software, and Why the Claim That AI Governance Infrastructure Cannot Be Built Is No Longer Defensible This article serves as the proof-of-concept record for the AI Provider Plurality Congressional Package. The repository is public at github.com/basilpuglisi/HAIA under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International license. The Agent […]
The Great AI Language Collapse: Why Marketing Is Killing Accountability
Most AI titles and terms being used right now are dead wrong. That should scare us more than the technology itself. What passes for authority today is often confidence without structure. A dangerous flattening is happening in plain sight. Operational requirements turn into marketing slogans, and accountability quietly disappears with the language. Clarity of language […]
Council for Humanity
A Three-Layer Governance Architecture for AI Constitutional Authority, National Sovereignty, and Species-Level Defense *updated 2/21/2026 PDF Here Abstract The most capable AI systems on earth are governed by individual constitutional authority. One person, or a small team reporting to one person, writes the values that shape how these systems interact with billions of users across […]
Why I Am Facilitating the Human Enhancement Quotient
The idea that AI could make us smarter has been around for decades. Garry Kasparov was one of the first to popularize it after his legendary match against Deep Blue in 1997. Out of that loss he began advocating for what he called “centaur chess,” where a human and a computer play as a team. […]
Multi AI Comparative Analysis: How My Work Stacks Up Against 22 AI Thought Leaders
When a peer asked why my work matters, I decided to run a comparative analysis. Five independent systems, ChatGPT (HAIA RECCLIN), Gemini, Claude, Perplexity, and Grok, compared my work to 22 influential voices across AI ethics, governance, adoption, and human AI collaboration. What emerged was not a verdict but a lens, a way of seeing […]