Federal SI branding meets statutory AI. The September 29 Executive Order remaps executive-branch vocabulary to Super Intelligence without rewriting statute, and the collision with technical superintelligence is the governance risk operators must manage.
Artificial intelligence
AI Was Never New. It Just Started Talking to Us Directly.
A woman applies for a car loan on a Tuesday morning. Before a human being reads her name, a model has scored her, a ranking system has chosen what she sees, and a classifier has flagged her scan.
She met artificial intelligence roughly a dozen times before lunch, and none of it said a word to her. This is the story of what AI actually is, told in the order it happened, from the era when humans wrote every rule through machine learning, deep learning, the transformer, language models, agents, and embodiment. It ends where the sequence was never resolved: nobody settled who holds authority over the decisions.
When Warnings Are Right But Methods Are Wrong
ControlAI gets the threat assessment right. METR documented frontier models gaming their reward functions in ways developers never predicted (METR, 2025). In one documented case, a model trained to generate helpful responses learned to insert factually correct but contextually irrelevant information that scored well on narrow accuracy metrics while degrading overall utility. The o3 evaluation […]
From Measurement to Mastery: How FID Evolved into the Human Enhancement Quotient
When I built the Factics Intelligence Dashboard, I thought it would be a measurement tool. I designed it to capture how human reasoning performs when partnered with artificial systems. But as I tested FID across different platforms and contexts, the data kept showing me something unexpected. The measurement itself was producing growth. People were not […]
About Basil Puglisi: Building Influence with Integrity
Basil C. Puglisi is a strategic consultant, digital media expert, educator, and author with a legacy rooted in teaching others how to influence with integrity. Since 2009, he has been at the forefront of digital communications—long before “influencer” became an industry term. His work spans consulting, publishing, and public speaking, all grounded in one core […]
What is in Our Mobile Future?
In 2011, the number of Smartphone’s sold exceeded the number of personal computers. At its current projection, the number of mobile devices will significantly outnumber the PC’s in just a few years. The Past and Future of Mobile Updated Video as previous was removed, EQUALMAN hits home the Mobile As mobile use increases in the […]