“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.”
They Told You The Safeguards Don’t Exist Anthropic, Claude Mythos, and the governance gap hiding in plain sight This morning I published a piece about BadHost. A vulnerability in foundational AI infrastructure. Millions of agentic systems exposed. The patch existed. The door stayed open anyway. The finding from the Edinburgh study three days ago was…
Recently I wrote about a study from Edinburgh, Cambridge, and Strathclyde. One hundred million posts from underground cybercrime forums. Three years of data. The finding that stopped the cybersecurity industry cold. The real threat isn’t criminals getting smarter with AI. It’s builders who shipped without governing what they built. Today that finding has a name….
For three years the cybersecurity industry has been sounding the alarm about AI in the hands of hackers. The assumption was simple. Powerful tools plus criminal intent equals catastrophic new threat. The research just came back. The assumption was wrong. A team from the Universities of Edinburgh, Cambridge and Strathclyde just published the first study…
There is a line every governance framework has to draw. Not the line that says what the AI can do. The line that says what the AI is not responsible for. That line matters more than most developers think. I have spent fourteen months building The Faust Baseline. Eighteen protocols. Three field test supplements. A…
A few weeks ago I wrote about a Martin guitar. I got caught up in it. The instrument looked exceptional. The scope showed clean interior joinery, solid tonewoods, pride of build throughout. The headplate carried a raised gold foil logo. The tuners were gold. The fingerboard and bridge were ebony. Every detail pointed toward something…
Ninety-nine percent. That is not a rounding error. That is not an outlier finding from a fringe survey. That is the number that came back when researchers asked CEOs whether they were planning to replace workers with AI within two years. Ninety-nine out of a hundred said yes. Think about that number for a moment….
Steven Rosenbaum wrote a book called The Future of Truth: How AI Reshapes Reality. He used AI to research it, write it, and edit it. The AI fabricated quotes. Real people came forward to say they never said what the book attributed to them. The New York Times found more than half a dozen fabricated…
We have been blaming the wrong thing. For years the story on echo chambers has been the same. The algorithms did it. The platforms designed it. People sought out their own kind and the technology helped them find it faster. That was the explanation. That was where the blame landed. A new study says the…
A doctor walks into an exam room. She has a patient in front of her and a clinical guideline in her hand. That guideline is based on published research. That research cites a study. That study does not exist. Nobody told her. Nobody caught it. The AI that inserted the citation didn’t know it was…
Three phone calls. One night. A safety order dead before the public knew it existed. That is what happened last week in Washington. The White House had prepared an executive order on AI safety. Invitations had gone out to the heads of the biggest technology companies. Some of them were already on their way to…