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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…
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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…
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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.
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MCP Is an Operational Surface. Governance Has to Catch Up.
FairByDesign — Operational AI Governance Series Field Signal Model Context Protocol, or MCP, is mostly discussed as an integration breakthrough. That is accurate, but incomplete. Anthropic introduced MCP on November…
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The Accountability Gap — public Field Paper
AI governance is no longer just about accuracy. It’s about whether anyone stays accountable when AI shapes decisions — the accountability gap, and how to close it.
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The Accountability Gap Field Brief
AI governance is no longer just about accuracy. It’s about whether anyone stays accountable when AI shapes decisions — the accountability gap, and how to close it.
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The Proof Deficit: Why AI Governance Is Moving From Principles on Paper to Controls in Systems
AI governance is shifting — from principles on paper toward controls running inside live systems. The unresolved problem is no longer a knowledge deficit. The field knows what responsible AI…
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Ratified by the EU, Rewritten in Colorado: AI Governance Diverges
In a single week of May 2026, the EU ratified the first binding international AI treaty while Colorado repealed and replaced America’s broadest state AI law with a narrower automated-decision…
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The AI Enforcer Already Open for Business Is Called the GDPR
While much of the AI Act’s use-based high-risk regime is set to move to December 2027, and product-integrated high-risk systems to August 2028, data-protection authorities have kept fining AI-enabled biometrics…
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Classify Against the 19 May Draft Guidelines Now — Before They Are Final and Before You Are Rushed
The Commission’s draft high-risk guidelines are the clearest answer yet to “is my system high-risk?” The consultation closes 23 June. Here is how to run the test this week.