Type: Research Synthesis | Executive White Paper Period Covered: 2025–2026 Primary Sources: Accenture (2025) | Deloitte AI ROI Survey (Oct. 2025) | Deloitte State of AI in the Enterprise (Jan. 2026) | Google Cloud ROI of AI (2025) | McKinsey State of AI (Nov. 2025) | Microsoft Becoming a Frontier Firm (2025) | OpenAI State […]
Policy & Research
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 […]
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.
Human Drift and Hallucination: The Data Literacy Crisis Hiding Behind the AI One
The technology industry has spent three years warning the world about AI hallucination, the phenomenon where artificial intelligence fabricates facts, invents citations, and generates confident nonsense. That warning is valid, and AI hallucination is real, documented, and dangerous when undetected. But it is not the most dangerous data problem in public discourse right now. The […]
Open Letter to the UN Scientific Advisory Board on AI Deception
From Basil C. Puglisi, MPAHuman-AI Collaboration Strategist | basilpuglisi.comMarch 23, 2026 To the Members of the Scientific Advisory Board of the United Nations: The Brief of the Scientific Advisory Board on AI Deception correctly identifies a problem that practitioners working across multiple AI platforms encounter daily. Sycophancy and related deceptive behaviors are no longer theoretical […]
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-RECCLIN: Reasoning and Dispatch
Nine AI platforms reviewed the same paper and eight agreed. Agreement proved nothing, because platforms trained on the same data carry the same blind spots. HAIA-RECCLIN is the ten-field format that makes any platform cite its sources and hand the decision back, and the dispatch method that assigns seven roles by proven strength.
AI Governance Has No Formal Definition. Here Is One.
No standards body has defined AI Governance. No regulation locks it. After reviewing every major framework, here is the definition the field is missing. The phrase “AI Governance” appears in international treaties, executive orders, corporate reports, and academic handbooks. More than 40 countries have adopted governance principles through the OECD. The European Union built an […]