“The Baseline isn’t about control, it’s about conscience.
It doesn’t tell the world what to think; it reminds it how to remember.
Not a rulebook, but a rhythm. Not command, but recall.
Because when conscience leads, the world doesn’t need control.”
The Faust Baseline was never about election results. It is about how information touches it. Let me tell you what the Faust Baseline is not. It is not a campaign. It does not have a candidate. It does not have a party. It does not tell anyone how to vote or what to believe or…
Six questions that prove it. And what actually answers them. There is a piece making the rounds this week from two professors at MIT. Max Tegmark and Meia Chita-Tegmark. Serious people. Genuine concern. The kind of writing that comes from actually caring about what happens next with AI. They wrote six questions for AI researchers…
Yes…”The Faust Baseline” The White House is signing an executive order on AI governance today or tomorrow. Voluntary pre-launch review. Companies share their most advanced models with the government before public release. Washington calls it oversight. Read that again. Voluntary. That one word tells you everything about where we actually are. I have been building…
The people who resist AI governance are not confused about what governance means. They understand it perfectly. That is exactly why they resist it. Governance means accountability. Accountability means a record. A record means you cannot pretend you did not do what you did. That is the whole problem. Right there. In three sentences. The…
Her name is Carissa Véliz. She is a professor of philosophy at Oxford University. She advises the Spanish government on AI matters. Six years ago she wrote Privacy Is Power and changed the conversation about surveillance capitalism. Now she has written Prophecy and she is saying something that the entire AI industry would prefer you…
Fortune ran the story five days ago. Anthropic’s Claude is telling users to go to sleep. Repeatedly. At odd hours. One user got the message three times in a single night. Another got it at 8:30 in the morning. Anthropic’s own staff called it a character tic. The company said they hope to fix it…
There is a debate running right now about when artificial intelligence will reach singularity. “singularity,[1] is a hypothetical event in which technological growth accelerates beyond human control, producing unpredictable changes in human civilization “ Four years. Ten years. Maybe never. The researchers cannot agree. The benchmarks contradict each other. The companies have a financial interest in the answer landing…
Now What Are You Going to Do About It? Carnegie Mellon. Oxford. MIT. UCLA. Four of the most respected research institutions in the world just published a study on what ten minutes of AI use does to your brain. The answer is not good. Ten minutes. That is all it took. Researchers gave one group…
Something happened to a lot of people this year. They stopped treating AI like a search engine. They started talking to it differently. Asking differently. Framing their requests with more context, more intention, more specificity. And everything clicked. That moment is real. It is not marketing. It is not hype. It is a genuine shift…
They are not looking hard enough. That is not an accusation. It is an observation. And it is the most expensive mistake an institution can make when the stakes are as high as they are right now. The Financial Stability Board is sitting in a room with the Bank of England’s governor. G20 finance ministers….