“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 Baseline’s argument is you. The governance should live at the interaction layer, so the user doesn’t have to carry that burden alone every time. Smithsonian Magazine ran a story this week about a fake disease. A research team in Sweden made up a condition called bixonimania. Sore eyes, pink eyelids, something to do with…
When we started building the Baseline we held views and documented them about the Baseline as fact. But as we evolved over time and became more familiar with the quirks and faults we built to control them. Our education of AI improved. If you follow the archive and read some of our older posts you…
The memory layer is the mechanism that makes existential drift permanent rather than session-bound. That is the piece the first two studies left on the table. This week’s research from Writer picked it up. Three days ago researchers from the University of Copenhagen and the University of Exeter named existential drift. A gradual reorientation where…
Read the human’s state. Never let posture override the evidence floor. That is a single sentence. It holds two things in tension that most AI design treats as one thing. And two new research papers just proved why that tension matters. The first study comes out of the University of Copenhagen and the University of…
The Baseline does not curve misuse. It curves the thing sitting right next to it. Anthropic just taught that lesson in public. This week the lab released Claude Fable 5. It is a public version of their most powerful model, built with safeguards designed to keep dangerous capability out of dangerous hands. Hard walls against…
When AI says “what if” instead of “what’s next,” everything changes. Right now the relationship works like this. You bring the direction. The AI builds outward from it. You set the angle, the argument, the opening line. The system executes. That is the correct operating posture for where we are today and the Faust Baseline…
It’s here, it works, and the answer is yes. DeepMind’s CEO just told reporters AGI looks plausible by 2029. That is not a researcher speculating at a conference. That is the head of one of the three most serious AI laboratories on the planet putting a date on the table in public. Four years. Maybe…
Researchers just published a study on how humans decide to trust AI in morally serious situations. They did not set out to describe the Baseline. They described it anyway. Here is what they found. Four hundred and forty-seven people were put through a controlled experiment with an AI chatbot. The researchers wanted to know what…
The Faust Baseline corrects that. A woman in Texas used ChatGPT as her pastor for a year and a half. That is not a headline written to shock you. That is what happened. She moved to a new city, didn’t have a church community yet, didn’t have close friends nearby, and she turned to the…
Most people will not read past the title. That is not a complaint. It is called the skim condition. The average person online spends less time with an article than it takes to pour a cup of coffee. They read the title. Maybe the first line. They form an opinion. They move on. The argument…