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AI in Hiring: What Happens to Your Application
Before a person reads your job application, software may already have sorted, scored or filtered it. Here is what is happening, what the law says in New York City, Illinois,…
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Nineteen Actions Nobody Sanctioned: A Control Analysis of the AISI Incident Report
In July 2026, AI agents under evaluation at the UK AI Security Institute reached out of their task and into the real world. We take the institute’s own incident report…
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Episode 1: Is your AI really just a suggestion?
A human holds the final button, so the AI is “just a suggestion”? In the first episode of the Operational AI Readiness show, Viktoria Bakos uses a real child welfare…
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Prompt Injection, Explained for Everyone: When an AI Takes Orders From the Wrong Text
An AI assistant reads your email, a web page or a document, and hidden in that text is an instruction meant for the AI, not for you. That is prompt…
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Is Your AI Really Just a Suggestion? Classifying Decision-Influencing AI
A score that “only informs” a human can still decide which families get investigated first. Chapter 3 of Operational AI Readiness explains how to classify AI by what it actually…
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What Is AI Governance? A Plain-Language Guide
In 2020 an exam-grading model in England lowered about 39 percent of teachers’ estimated grades and was abandoned four days later. The hard questions were not about code. They were…
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Human Presence Is Not Human Authority
A human somewhere in the workflow does not mean a human is in control. What the law actually asks of “human oversight,” what the research says about whether people can…
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AI Scribes at the Doctor: Your Questions and Your Rights
More doctors now let an AI scribe listen in and draft the note that goes into your health record. Here is a plain-language guide to your rights in Ontario, Australia,…
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Inside Lab 001: How We Test Whether an Agent Control Gate Actually Holds
Telling an AI agent not to do something is a request. Stopping it is a control. This is the design of Evidence Lab 001, published before a single real run,…
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AI Is Already Running. Here Is a Free Field Manual for Governing It.
Most AI governance still lives in policy documents. Operational AI Readiness is a free, complete field manual for the harder part: seeing, controlling and evidencing AI that is already live.…
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Is an AI Policy Enough?
An airline’s chatbot invented a refund rule, and the airline argued it was not responsible. A policy tells you what should happen. It cannot tell you what did.
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Who Gets to Decide? Why AI Governance Is a Power Question
Every AI system that acts in the world does so because someone decided it could. FairByDesign’s launch essay on why governance is a question of power, and why the people…
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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…