Digital Strategy, Content, and AI Since 2009
President Trump renamed artificial intelligence after a mind no one has built.
Executive Order 14434 gives today’s ordinary AI the name researchers reserved for an intellect beyond ours, and the minds who defined that word were not in the room. Basil C. Puglisi traces superintelligence from Turing and Good to Bostrom and shows how the order skips the AGI rung. The rename is a bad joke if superintelligence is far off and dangerous if the fears are right.
If AI is a disability tool, are the rules restricting it unethical at best and illegal at worst?
This companion working paper maps which United States laws reach which institutions and classifies six types of AI policy risk, from outright bans to detection tools. It works a pending smart-glasses case, compares the EU AI Act, and closes with a model accommodation clause any institution can adopt.
A blind professional asks AI to describe a chart. The paper asks whether that use is assistive technology.
This working paper names the function Artificially Intelligent Disability Assistance (AIDA) and gives a three-prong test for when a use of general-purpose AI qualifies. It runs seven cases, from blindness and speech loss to post-traumatic stress, and it names the case the test excludes and the dissent it has to answer.
Verified AI is not a settled category, and its history explains why.
This working paper traces the term from the verification of knowledge-based systems in 1988 through the 2016 formal definition, shows how that concept shaped the HAIA Ecosystem, and sets out a practitioner definition built on records a human can review and accept. It closes with the 2026 trend and how the Proof-of-Control standard contrasts with it.
Six positions in nine days, and every one of them fits the speaker’s balance sheet.
In September 2026 four frontier labs called for a slowdown, the President called the whole thing a hoax, and two of the largest companies in AI said the market already handles it. This piece argues the slowdown is not evidence that governance is working. It is evidence that economic incentives are still in charge, with the sign flipped. Readers get the dated exposure curve behind the calls, the reason liability cannot currently steer, and a narrower proposal than pacing the frontier.
The major AI literacy frameworks name governing and managing AI as a competence and stop short of measuring it. This working paper introduces the Human Enhancement Quotient, a behavior-anchored instrument that scores the governance relationship between a human authority and a machine capability inside a working decision process, with a universal floor keyed to irreversible consequence and an audit record reviewable on appeal.
Europe withdrew its AI liability directive, and many executives read relief into the news. The surviving Product Liability Directive tells a different story, reaching software and AI with strict liability and presumptions that reward the documented company. This analysis maps what changed, who carries the exposure across providers and deployers, and the record that answers a claim.
A German court just told Google it answers for what its AI publishes. The Munich ruling treats AI Overviews as Google’s own statements, not safe search results, and says the disclaimer does not transfer the duty. Read what the decision means for AI accountability and why it mirrors New York’s Part 161 from the other end.
New York let its lawyers use AI in court and skipped the disclosure form everyone expected. That is not the relief it looks like. With nothing to disclose, the whole duty lands on the signature. Here is what Part 161 changes, the two cases that show the stakes, and why accountability outlasts disclosure.
Most organizations treat GDPR as a cookie-banner problem settled years ago. It is the oldest law on the books that directly governs automated decisions about people, and in 2026 it is one of the most active. This unit maps the Article 22 exposure, the SCHUFA ruling, the 2026 enforcement action, and the records that turn the risk into a defensible position.
