“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.”
Good Governance Is Also Good Economics — The Faust Baseline Just Proved It Everyone who argues for AI governance talks about safety. About integrity. About keeping humans in the room. Those are the right arguments and I have made every one of them. But there is a conversation that doesn’t get had often enough, and…
Anthropic released a new command for Claude Code this week. They called it /goal. I’m going to tell you what it actually is, because the name doesn’t capture it. The mechanics are straightforward. You define an end state in plain language. Claude Code starts working toward it. Each time it completes a turn, a second…
Let me tell you what I found this week that relates to the presumption of being the receiver of a deliverer for services paid. It all started with drywall. I bought material from a big store and had it delivered. Fourteen sheets of drywall. Fifteen studs. Other things. Heavy material. The kind of load a…
A report came out this year with over a hundred experts behind it, led by a man who won a Turing Award, backed by more than thirty countries. It is called the International AI Safety Report 2026. It is the largest collaboration on AI safety ever put together. And buried in its pages is a…
We found a wall this week. We built it ourselves. And we decided not to climb over it. Here is what happened, plain. The Faust Baseline has nineteen protocols. Every one of them governs how an AI behaves when it is talking with a person. Tell the truth. Show the evidence. Name the limits. Stay…
A man in cybersecurity wrote something this week that landed clean. He said agentic AI cannot be trusted to act on its own. He is right. And he is late. His name is Howie Koh. He wrote it for a trade outlet aimed at security chiefs. It was his own view, not the industry speaking….
It’s Worse Than the Headline Three-quarters of psychologists in America are now sitting across from patients who are also, in some real sense, in a relationship with a chatbot. That’s not a future risk anymore. That’s where the profession already is, documented in a real survey, with real numbers, published this month. And the most…
Colorado was supposed to be the proof that America could regulate AI the serious way, the way Europe did. It isn’t anymore. The state just gutted its own landmark AI law under direct federal pressure, and almost nobody outside the legal trade press has noticed. Here’s the date everyone’s still citing, including most of the…
This is an actual conversational response from Claude Sonnet 4.6 under a working governance framework the Faust Baseline. The content is not as impotrtent as the actual processing Claude does in articulating the facts according to the Faust Baseline protocals, this is what true AI Governance looks and feels like and the way I work…
Anthropic told lawmakers something this month that should stop every governance conversation in its tracks: “The next version of their AI might not be built by people at all. It might be built by the version before it.” That’s not a warning about some far-off future. Jack Clark, Anthropic’s policy lead, said it plainly in…