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  • Is an AI Policy Enough?
    Field Papers

    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.

    October 13, 2026
  • Who Gets to Decide? Why AI Governance Is a Power Question
    Field Papers

    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…

    October 10, 2026
  • The FairByDesign Doctrine: Governing AI You Can’t Fully Understand
    Field Papers

    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…

    June 6, 2026
  • MCP Enforces at the Boundary. It Cannot Vouch for Itself.
    Mercury Intelligence

    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?

    June 4, 2026
  • MCP Is an Operational Surface. Governance Has to Catch Up.
    Mercury Brief

    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…

    June 4, 2026

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