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The Kill-Switch Test
The button says stop. Excellent. What stopped? This week’s Mercury Brief follows the AI incidents behind the kill-switch debate—and asks whether the tasks, credentials and consequences stop with the chat. A reassuring statement is lovely. We would also like the receipts.
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Who Holds the Wheel? Open Source and the Fight for AI Decision Intelligence
The same data that makes AI governable can also make it steerable. That is why control over AI governance matters. Whoever controls telemetry, evaluation criteria, dashboards, and intervention mechanisms can influence what institutions see, what they measure, what they reward, and what they correct. The danger is not necessarily a single billionaire commanding civilization…
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The AI Act Was Reordered Just Before It Bit. Here Is Who Asked.
Europe moved its hardest AI Act deadlines just weeks before they were due to apply. The public record shows which industry requests shaped the Digital Omnibus, which safeguards survived, and why the final result is more complicated than either “simplification” or “capture.”
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Who Sought to Reorder the AI Act? What the Open Record Shows About the Digital Omnibus
The EU moved its hardest AI deadlines just weeks before they were due to apply. This paper traces which industry requests entered the Digital Omnibus, which were rejected, who benefits from the new timetable, and where the public record stops short of proving causation.
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Can You Reconstruct What Your AI Did?
Most organizations can describe their AI governance. Far fewer can reconstruct what happened when an AI-enabled decision goes wrong. Paper IV of Project Sentinel introduces the Reconstruction Principle and a six-question test for determining whether governance can actually be demonstrated.
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The Export-Control Order That Took Anthropic’s Frontier Model Offline
“The off switch was real. It just wasn’t in the building you thought it was.”
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The FairByDesign Doctrine: Governing AI You Can’t Fully Understand
The full FairByDesign Doctrine Field Paper carries the complete three-pillar architecture, the five-level Evidence Hierarchy, the Reconstruction Spine and data-layer doctrine, role-by-role implications, Evidence Notes mapping every claim to its source, and full references. It is Paper III of the Project Sentinel series, following The Accountability Gap and The Accountability Control Plane. Download the…
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The Accountability Control Plane Public Brief
Most organizations can prove they have an AI policy. Far fewer can prove what actually happened the last time an AI system shaped a real decision.
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MCP Enforces at the Boundary. It Cannot Vouch for Itself.
which governance functions can the protocol actually hold, and at exactly what point do you stop trusting it?
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The Accountability Control Plane Field Paper
Trustworthy AI cannot be reduced to model behavior. It depends on trustworthy systems of oversight around AI.