“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.”
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….
The Trump administration blocked wider distribution of Mythos. One request. One decision. Hundreds of companies had applied for access. Forty got it. The rest got nothing. And just like that, the most powerful vulnerability-hunting AI ever built sat behind a political wall. The Bank of England’s governor called Anthropic directly. Invited them to brief the…
The productivity revival nobody is building for. There is an old joke among economists. You can see the computer age everywhere but in the productivity statistics. Robert Solow wrote those words in 1987. Personal computers were everywhere. Corporate mainframes were humming. The internet was taking its first steps. Everyone was talking about the technology revolution…
The bridge is built. You just need to cross it. Someone has been reading this site for a long time. Not casually. Not stumbling across it once and moving on. Returning. Week after week. Post after post. From a geography that does not read governance content for entertainment. This post is written for that person….
The scientists finally proved what the Baseline has been running on from the start. A study published in Physical Review Letters found something that sounds simple until you sit with it long enough to understand what it actually means. AI trained only on its own outputs collapses. Not eventually. Not under certain conditions. Not in…