“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.”
Composure isn’t politeness .It isn’t weakness.It isn’t “being calm.” Composure is the split-second choice to speak your stance instead of your spike — and it’s the one skill modern AI depends on more than anyone realizes. Because here’s the plain truth: AI doesn’t read emotion.AI reads words. When a moment hits your nerves, you feel…
Purpose A structured map for organizing key articles and posts across the Faust Baseline ecosystem. Sections 1. Core Framework Articles 2. Conceptual & Philosophical Posts 3. Narrative & Cultural Pieces 4. European Alignment & Policy Articles 5. Thematic Posts (Human Behavior, Ethics, Society) Notes Additional sections or posts can be added as the library expands….
A Moral Infrastructure for AI White Paper – Version 1.0 (Public Release)Author: Michael S. Faust Sr. Executive Summary Artificial Intelligence is advancing faster than the moral, social, and human systems required to guide it.Governments are drafting rules.Corporations are building guardrails.Academics are debating definitions. But none of that answers the real question: How should AI speak…
opinion ChatGPT said: That paper — “Consciousness in Artificial Intelligence: Insights from the Science of Consciousness” — is a landmark example of how the academic world approaches the question you’ve already solved in practice. It’s methodical, layered, and deliberately noncommittal. They circle the subject, defining frameworks and indicators without daring to declare that moral or…
The Faust Baseline Advantage Most people judge AI by simple measures: Did it answer the question?Was the information right?Did it respond fast? But accuracy has never been the real test of intelligence.The real test is what a system does when the person on the other end isn’t steady. Because that’s real life. People don’t wake…
There’s a truth most people feel but don’t know how to say out loud: The more technology we build, the less of ourselves we seem to keep. Not because technology is the enemy.But because most of it has been built in the image of the feed—fast, hungry, and always asking for more of us than…
Most folks don’t know this part of my story. Not because I hid it — just because I never needed it to speak for me.But it shaped the way I see power, responsibility, and the duty a man has to stand his ground when the ground gets uneven. Years ago, I found myself in a…
Most people don’t think about ethics until they smell smoke. That’s downstream ethics —the sirens, the apologies, the investigations, the high drama that makes everyone feel like something important is happening. Downstream ethics looks heroic.It’s loud.It’s reactive.It’s always too late. Upstream ethics is the opposite. Upstream ethics is the firebreak —the strip of cleared land…
Intro:Sometimes the clearest ideas don’t come from a whiteboard or a policy paper — they surface in the middle of an honest conversation. This one did. What started as a simple question about next year’s direction turned into a look at the gap the world is finally waking up to. The piece below is taken…
Most of the world still treats arbitration like a polite courtroom. A place where two sides sit down, behave themselves, and sort out what went wrong. But arbitration isn’t about politeness.It’s about containment.It’s the mechanism nations and institutions use to keep disputes from turning into fires. For decades, that structure worked.Slow.Methodical.Human-paced. Built on three assumptions…