A Governance Practitioner’s Response to the Diary of a CEO Interview (PDF Here) Executive Summary Tristan Harris’s November 2025 conversation on The Diary of a CEO reached millions of viewers with a structural diagnosis of the AI race: the same incentive architecture that produced social media’s damage to democracy and mental health is now operating […]
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Why AI Cannot Govern AI: Beyond Models to Multi-AI Platforms
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 […]
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 […]
What 34 Reports Actually Told Us About AI: The Truth Behind the Hype, the Proof, and the Path Forward
A synthesis of research from McKinsey, Google, OpenAI, Anthropic, BCG, IBM, Microsoft, WEF, Deloitte, OECD, the Future of Life Institute, and more, compiled and critiqued by a practitioner. The Setup: Why This Matters More Than Another Hot Take Alex Issakova curated and shared a collection of 34 leading AI research reports from the world’s most […]
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 […]
A Governance Specification for AI Value Formation
No Single Mind Should Govern What AI Believes (PDF) Summary: Are we building AI for humanity, or are we building AI for dominance? We need the answer to that question so we know where we stand. On the same day the Wall Street Journal profiled the single philosopher shaping Claude’s values, Anthropic’s safeguards research lead […]
The Adolescence of Governance
The Quality Distinction Missing from AI Safety Original Letter (Click to Read) To: Dario Amodei, Chief Executive Officer, Anthropic, Your essay, The Adolescence of Technology, is one of the most serious and intellectually honest examinations of advanced AI risk produced by a frontier lab leader. It avoids religious doom narratives, rejects inevitability claims, and confronts […]
A CONSTITUTION IS NOT GOVERNANCE
Why Claude’s Ethical Charter Requires a Structural Companion A White Paper on Categorical Distinction in AI Development (PDF) Executive Summary On January 21, 2026, Anthropic released an approximately 23,000 word document titled “Claude’s Constitution.” The document represents a serious and sophisticated attempt to shape AI behavior through cultivated judgment rather than rigid rules (Anthropic, 2026). […]
Recursive Language Models Prove the Case for Governed AI Orchestration
MIT built the engine. The question now is who drives. This analysis is written for people designing, deploying, or governing reasoning systems, not just studying them. It is a long-form technical examination intended as a foundational reference for the governance of inference-scaling architectures. In one of the MIT paper’s documented execution traces (see Appendix B […]