“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.”
Gartner Says Two in Five Companies Will Roll Back AI Agents by 2027. Here’s the Layer They Missed. Gartner just released a warning. Two in five enterprises will have to decommission their AI agents by 2027. Not because the technology failed. Not because the market shifted. Not because the investment dried up. Because the governance…
Anthropic shipped Claude Opus 4.8 this week. The headline feature is not speed. It is not benchmark performance. It is not scale. The headline feature is honesty. They are calling it the killer feature. Their words. An honest AI is rare enough that Anthropic reached back to ancient Greece to frame the announcement. Diogenes roaming…
The Gear Nobody Built Introducing AGP-1 Three days ago the Edinburgh study found that the real cybersecurity threat is builders who ship without governing what they built. Two days ago BadHost confirmed that agentic AI infrastructure is already carrying live vulnerabilities that patches haven’t reached. Yesterday Anthropic announced Claude Mythos. A model that generates working…
They Told You The Safeguards Don’t Exist Anthropic, Claude Mythos, and the governance gap hiding in plain sight This morning I published a piece about BadHost. A vulnerability in foundational AI infrastructure. Millions of agentic systems exposed. The patch existed. The door stayed open anyway. The finding from the Edinburgh study three days ago was…
Recently I wrote about a study from Edinburgh, Cambridge, and Strathclyde. One hundred million posts from underground cybercrime forums. Three years of data. The finding that stopped the cybersecurity industry cold. The real threat isn’t criminals getting smarter with AI. It’s builders who shipped without governing what they built. Today that finding has a name….
For three years the cybersecurity industry has been sounding the alarm about AI in the hands of hackers. The assumption was simple. Powerful tools plus criminal intent equals catastrophic new threat. The research just came back. The assumption was wrong. A team from the Universities of Edinburgh, Cambridge and Strathclyde just published the first study…
There is a line every governance framework has to draw. Not the line that says what the AI can do. The line that says what the AI is not responsible for. That line matters more than most developers think. I have spent fourteen months building The Faust Baseline. Eighteen protocols. Three field test supplements. A…
A few weeks ago I wrote about a Martin guitar. I got caught up in it. The instrument looked exceptional. The scope showed clean interior joinery, solid tonewoods, pride of build throughout. The headplate carried a raised gold foil logo. The tuners were gold. The fingerboard and bridge were ebony. Every detail pointed toward something…
Ninety-nine percent. That is not a rounding error. That is not an outlier finding from a fringe survey. That is the number that came back when researchers asked CEOs whether they were planning to replace workers with AI within two years. Ninety-nine out of a hundred said yes. Think about that number for a moment….
Steven Rosenbaum wrote a book called The Future of Truth: How AI Reshapes Reality. He used AI to research it, write it, and edit it. The AI fabricated quotes. Real people came forward to say they never said what the book attributed to them. The New York Times found more than half a dozen fabricated…