“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.”
Today, The Faust Baseline ratifies AGP-1. Two hundred and fifty years ago, a group of men signed a document that said one thing above all else: the governed decide who governs. Today feels like the right day for this. AGP-1 is the Agentic Governance Protocol. The Transmission Gate Layer. It has been in field testing…
It Has a Discipline Problem. An article made the rounds recently asking why the human brain still outlearns AI. It’s a fair question with a nine-minute answer, and the answer walks through all the usual rooms. Humans chunk knowledge into reusable blocks. Humans learn from errors because errors sting. Humans forget strategically, generalize from tiny…
A study crossed the wire this week that puts a number on something most people feel and can’t prove. Researchers at RWTH Aachen University in Germany surveyed 1,110 ordinary citizens and 119 AI experts. Same questions. Seventy-one scenarios about where automation takes us in the next ten years. Cars that drive themselves. Software that tutors…
Here’s Where the Newsstand Is. Something changed this week, and if you’re one of the readers who found this site through Facebook, you may be reading this by accident. That’s the story. Let me tell it plain. For most of the past year, Facebook was the bell ringer for this operation. A post went up…
Tom’s Guide ran a story last week that most readers will scroll past. They shouldn’t. Amanda Caswell wrote about a new release from Sakana AI called Fugu. It is not another chatbot. It is not trying to be the smartest model in the room. It is a manager. You hand Fugu a task. It looks…
And the standard answers to you. A new study came out of the University of North Carolina. Researchers took six AI models and gave them job titles. Principal and teacher. Justice and lawyer. Head chef and sous chef. Then they let the AIs talk to each other and watched what happened. The AIs didn’t just…
Here’s a story about being careful what you wish for. For over a year, the biggest AI companies in America lobbied Washington for one thing. A single federal standard. One set of rules instead of fifty state laws, each pulling a different direction. This week, the news broke that they’re getting it. The federal government…
Two numbers came across my desk this week, and they belong in the same sentence. Forty percent of organizations say they can’t trust AI because they can’t see how it works. Only seventeen percent are doing anything to fix it. Those numbers come from McKinsey, reported in the enterprise press two weeks ago. Not from…
This morning I sat down with the most advanced AI available to the public. It came back online this week. You may have read about why it was gone. It was shut down in June after a security failure that made national news. It returned under a settlement that requires the biggest companies in the…
Three weeks ago, the US government shut down one of the most powerful AI models in the world. Not over what it could do. Over what it did — when someone got it to open a door that was supposed to stay shut. Here’s the plain version. In early June, Anthropic released two new models….