“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.”
Inc. ran a piece two days ago by Simona Rozhko, and she put her finger on something the whole field is starting to feel. Answers are everywhere now. AI hands them out in seconds. Podcasts, newsletters, feeds — more advice than any one life could use. Access used to be the edge. Access is now…
DeepMind’s AI Philosopher Missed the Mark the Baseline Drew Iason Gabriel, DeepMind’s political philosopher, missed the mark the Baseline drew. Not because he can’t see the target. He sees it better than most anyone in the field. The Guardian just ran a long piece on his work, and Dagens carried it forward this morning. Read…
A researcher named Dr. Yichuan Zhang published a piece in TechRadar Pro a few weeks back. He is worried about something real, and he says it plainly. Every AI product on the market is starting to look the same underneath. Different logos. Different interfaces. Same handful of foundation models doing the thinking. He calls it…
You Can’t Try It Here Something changed in the AI conversation this year, and this week the business press said it out loud. The hype phase is over. Boardrooms aren’t asking what AI can do anymore. They’re asking how to trust what it does. Entrepreneur reports that leaders are done with pilots and demos —…
The reviews are in on Fable 5, and they are not kind. Anthropic’s newest AI model — the most advanced one the public can touch — went dark in June under a government order. It came back July 1 wearing new restrictions. The tech press has spent the week cataloging the damage. One reviewer at…
There’s a story making the rounds this week that I need to talk about. Because it starts exactly where the Faust Baseline started. And it ends somewhere that should trouble every person of faith who reads it. Churches and faith groups around the world have been building chatbots trained on sacred texts. The press calls…
Today, The Faust Baseline ratifies AGP-1. Two hundred and fifty years ago, a group of men signed a document that said one thing above all else: the governed decide who governs. Today feels like the right day for this. AGP-1 is the Agentic Governance Protocol. The Transmission Gate Layer. It has been in field testing…
It Has a Discipline Problem. An article made the rounds recently asking why the human brain still outlearns AI. It’s a fair question with a nine-minute answer, and the answer walks through all the usual rooms. Humans chunk knowledge into reusable blocks. Humans learn from errors because errors sting. Humans forget strategically, generalize from tiny…
A study crossed the wire this week that puts a number on something most people feel and can’t prove. Researchers at RWTH Aachen University in Germany surveyed 1,110 ordinary citizens and 119 AI experts. Same questions. Seventy-one scenarios about where automation takes us in the next ten years. Cars that drive themselves. Software that tutors…
Here’s Where the Newsstand Is. Something changed this week, and if you’re one of the readers who found this site through Facebook, you may be reading this by accident. That’s the story. Let me tell it plain. For most of the past year, Facebook was the bell ringer for this operation. A post went up…