The AI Rulebook  Reads the Human Room Also

The AI Rulebook Reads the Human Room Also

I built a rulebook for AI. Somewhere along the way, it turned out I was building it for the people, too. This week, Inc. ran a piece by Maria Fernanda Levis. She’s a founder in health care. She spent eight years building a company to bring care to people who needed it most. Then her…

The AI Labs Hired Philosophers. I Asked The Carpenter.

The AI Labs Hired Philosophers. I Asked The Carpenter.

The news this week says the world’s most powerful AI companies are hiring philosophers. Six-figure salaries. Resident thinkers at the top labs. One chief executive says hundreds of moral philosophers helped write the rules for his product. The industry even has a name for the method now. They call it AI constitutionalism. It means taking…

Nothing Fancy. Small AI Needs Small Governance.

Nothing Fancy. Small AI Needs Small Governance.

This week the World Bank said something the giants of the AI industry needed to hear. One of its top leaders, writing from the biggest development institution on earth, said the greatest opportunity in artificial intelligence will not come from the giant models. The ones that drink rivers of water and burn cities’ worth of…

Nobody Gets an A. So I Wrote My Own Rulebook.

Nobody Gets an A. So I Wrote My Own Rulebook.

The report cards came out this week. Twice a year, an independent panel of experts grades the biggest AI companies on safety. How they test. How they manage risk. Whether they can keep their most powerful systems under control. The best grade in the whole industry was a C+. Not one A. Not one B….

“An AI Rulebook That Works Today. Not Tomorrow.”

“An AI Rulebook That Works Today. Not Tomorrow.”

It is called “The Faust Baseline” a behavioral… “AI Baseline Governance”… framework. A few days back I wrote about the leash. The AI industry spent years asking for rules. It said it wanted guardrails. Then the rules showed up, and they were not the kind you choose. They were the kind that gets clipped on….

AI Governance is Where the Green Grass Grows

AI Governance is Where the Green Grass Grows

In our country we have lived most of history with governance. Not without argument. Not without fights that left marks on the country and on the people in it. We have disagreed about where the fence went. We have had generations that maintained the fence and generations that neglected them. But still we built them….

Two Govt’s Picked Up The Hammer On AI Law

Two Govt’s Picked Up The Hammer On AI Law

The AI Law Floor Just Got Poured — On Both Sides of the Ocean In the same week, two governments picked up the hammer. In Illinois, the governor signed the first AI audit law in the United States — a statute requiring AI labs to create their governance frameworks, publish them, update them every year,…

Our Due Diligence Under the AI Governance Booth

Our Due Diligence Under the AI Governance Booth

We Went Looking — Here’s What We Found I told you a salesman set up in my category. Then I did what I always do. I checked the paperwork. This morning I published a post about a trade article introducing a proprietary AI governance framework — three pillars, three certifications, arriving in the press three…

AI Governance  Has A  Market Value

AI Governance Has A Market Value

Somebody just set up a booth in my AI governance category. Three days after I ratified AGP-1 — the Agentic Governance Protocol, signed onto the record July 4 — a piece ran in the trade press introducing a company’s proprietary AI governance framework. Complete with three paid certifications. Adopt, Defend, Govern. A framework, a curriculum,…

The Artificial Intelligence Safety Measures Act of Illinois

The Artificial Intelligence Safety Measures Act of Illinois

The first AI audit law just made the “Faust Baseline’s” method mandatory. This morning — July 6, 2026 — the Governor of Illinois signed a bill and made history with it. The Artificial Intelligence Safety Measures Act. The first law in the United States requiring the biggest AI labs to have their safety plans audited…