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 […]
Ethical AI
The Missing Governor: Anthropic’s Constitution and Essay Acknowledge What They Cannot Provide
Anthropic’s constitution for Claude and Dario Amodei’s essay cover the values line and the accountability line, and both acknowledge the need for external governance without building it. This paper by Basil C. Puglisi argues that AI Governance requires a human governor and proposes Checkpoint-Based Governance as the missing layer.
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
Anthropic’s constitution for Claude is a serious Ethical AI document, but it is not AI Governance. This white paper by Basil C. Puglisi separates Ethical AI, Responsible AI, and AI Governance and shows where the constitution stops short of human oversight. It closes with a Minimum Viable Governance Annex template that organizations can adopt.
What We Failed to Define Is How We Fail
Ethical AI, Responsible AI, and AI Governance Are Not the Same Thing The Thesis: Language Failure Becomes Operational Failure We keep arguing about AI safety while failing to define governance itself. This confusion guarantees downstream failure in oversight and accountability. Three terms circulate through boardrooms, policy documents, and LinkedIn debates as if they mean the […]
Checkpoint-Based Governance
Version 4.2.1 of Checkpoint-Based Governance (CBG) by Basil C. Puglisi sets out a constitution for human-AI collaboration built on human arbitration. It covers a four-stage decision loop, risk-proportional checkpoints, the rule that AI cannot approve another AI, and immutable checkpoint records. The current version of the framework is on the Checkpoint-Based Governance page.