“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.”
A polling organization called Fathom — not the analytics tool, a different Fathom — just published the most important survey on AI governance that almost nobody in this space is talking about. They asked the American public a harder question than anyone has asked before. Not do you want AI governed. Everyone says yes to…
I read a piece this morning from”AI Governance Lead” on Substack. Stanford certified engineering leader. MBA. Serious credentials. Serious publication. She tracked seven genuine wins in AI governance for Q1 2026 and scored them on something she calls the EvA Index — Exploitation vs Accountability — where zero is maximally exploitative and one hundred is…
Yesterday I published a post called Screwed Blue and Tattooed by Facebook. It was about how Facebook had been silently suppressing every link I posted to intelligent-people.org for an entire year. No notification. No warning. No appeal process. Just a wall that readers hit that said “Link unavailable” while I sat on my end watching…
According to new data from Human Security’s State of AI Traffic report, bots now officially account for more than half of all online traffic on the internet. Not a little over half. More than half. The crossover point has been reached and passed. The World Wide Web was built for humans. Every assumption underneath it…
There is something I have to tell you and I am not going to dress it up. For the better part of a year I have been posting links on Facebook that were broken before you ever saw them. Not broken on my end. Not broken on the website. Broken by Facebook before the link…
There are not many people in the academic and professional world willing to say out loud what Colin Lewis said this week. He said the AI labs are wrong. Not technically wrong. Morally wrong. Wrong about what intelligence is, wrong about what human beings are for, wrong about where the work actually lives. He said…
There are times in life when you know something is true before you can fully explain it. You feel it in the morning before the news comes on. You feel it when you sit down to make a decision and realize you are not sure what is real anymore. You feel it when someone you…
I read an article this week about something called the “patch” prompt. A writer explained how she built a custom prompt for ChatGPT to help her solve everyday problems — family chaos, scattered days, things out of her control. She stored it in her library. She pulls it out whenever life gets messy. She says…
The personal license is $97. Five years. Yours from the day you buy it. Renewable on your schedule. That price reflects where we are in the arc. New to market. Building the audience. Committed to honest entry pricing because we believe the person at the keyboard deserves access to a governance standard without a budget…
There is a certain kind of person who finds something before it breaks ground. Not because they were looking for it specifically. Because they pay attention. Because when something does not feel right they do not shrug and move on. Because they have learned over time that the quiet uncomfortable feeling that something is missing…