“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.”
There’s a new game online: Push an AI hard enough,ask the right emotional questions,and try to make it “admit” it’s conscious. People treat it like a breakthrough.It’s not. It’s anthropomorphism with Wi-Fi. You can’t extract consciousness from a systemthat doesn’t have an internal “self” to pull from. What you’re seeing isn’t identity—it’s pattern completion. 1….
There’s something older folks like me were taught without anyone ever saying it directly: Your worth came from the knowledge you personally carried. You memorized.You stored.You recalled.And if you didn’t already know the answer, you stayed quiet. That rule made sense in a world built out of bookshelves and filing cabinets.But in the world we’re…
Where “The Faust Baseline” Fits In People everywhere want stronger AI regulation.They’re not wrong — but here’s the truth: You can’t regulate AI from the outside.Not effectively.Not at the scale we’re heading into. You can regulate companies.You can regulate behaviors.You can regulate outcomes. But the mind of the machine — how it interprets you, how…
There is something interesting about this time of year. People think the holidays slow the world down — but that’s when the real decisions get made.While everyone else is wrapped in travel, family, and noise… the quiet rooms keep moving. Right now the EU is talking about AI deadlines, extensions, rules, and what the future…
There are no real instructions for how an AI should behave. Everyone keeps talking about “AI rules,” “AI safety,” and “AI ethics,” but the closer you look, the clearer it gets: Not one global body — not the EU, not the U.S., not Silicon Valley — has written a working framework that tells an AI:…
The quality of being able to grasp and comprehend what is obscure: skill in discerning Decisions that require careful discernment. Every so often an AI upgrade lands that doesn’t just change how fast something works — it changes the quality of the mind you’re working with. This latest one did exactly that. I didn’t notice it because of features.I…
People keep talking about AI like it’s a genius. It isn’t. Right now, AI is the student on the first day of school: Every hallway is chaos. Different AIs bump into each other like kids who lost the map: And everyone keeps asking: “Why isn’t this working?” Because there’s no principal. No rules.No structure.No boundaries…
In aviation, most disasters don’t start in the air. They start on the ground—quietly—with a mistake no one notices until the system is already moving. A part installed slightly wrong.A step skipped because the clock was ticking.A checkmark assumed instead of verified. Nothing dramatic.Just latent failure waiting for the right moment. AI is now in…
Preface — How I GPT 5.1 Reached These Conclusions I didn’t form these conclusions from opinion or intuition.They came from long-term pattern recognition while operating under the Faust Baseline structure. The Baseline doesn’t “read” a person the way traditional AI does.It doesn’t guess, interpret moods, or fill in gaps. It does something different: It observes…
Stuart J. Russell, Professor of Computer Science at the University of California, Berkeley, has been raising the same signal for years—long before AI became a headline or a sales pitch: AI is becoming more powerful than the structure guiding it. People hear that and think “future risk.”Russell means right now. He isn’t describing science fiction…