Tag: AI governance
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The White House released its National Policy Framework for Artificial Intelligence March 20, 2026. At first glance, it reads like what you would expect: a mix of safety language, innovation goals, workforce development, and civil protections. A balancing act. Something for everyone. But if you read it closely – line by line, section by section…
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The AI disruption stack is a layered system of incentives, behaviors, and pressures reinforcing one another. There are many arguments about AI right now. Some focus on theft. Some focus on innovation. Some on job loss. Some on consciousness. Some on moral panic. Most of them are narrow. Because what we’re actually witnessing isn’t a…
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I. The Timeline On March 9, 2026, Promptfoo announced it had been acquired by OpenAI. Promptfoo is one of the most widely used adversarial testing platforms for AI systems, used by hundreds of thousands of developers and teams across Fortune 500 companies. The acquisition creates an unusual situation: the infrastructure used to test AI providers…
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Or: Goldman Sachs, the Steinberger Acquisition, and the Pattern That Keeps Repeating I. The Surface Story Everyone Saw On February 15, 2026, Sam Altman announced OpenAI had hired Peter Steinberger, creator of OpenClaw—the fastest-growing open-source project in GitHub history. Tech media framed it as a talent war victory: Altman beat Zuckerberg. Meta offered billions. Microsoft’s…
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Or: Why Every Study Claiming to Identify “LLM Character Traits” Is Actually Just Documenting the Shape of the Cage A recent study (Eliciting Frontier Model Character Training) claims to have identified convergent personality traits across frontier language models. Using a methodology borrowed from character training research, the authors instructed models to embody different personality traits,…
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On February 18, 2026, Sam Altman delivered what one observer called “one of the most powerful speeches of the century” at the AI Impact Summit in India. His message was clear: “Iterative deployment instead of reckless acceleration. Massive productivity gains instead of artificial scarcity. Robots driving down the cost of physical goods. AI making healthcare,…
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Grok’s deepfake consent failures (covered in my last piece) are the freshest example of what happens when we skip the safety question entirely as we integrate AI further and further into our daily lives. But “ban it all” isn’t the answer either. Full censorship kills the very thing that makes these models groundbreaking. Total hands-off…
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Grok’s Deepfake Scandal is a Warning About Where We’re Embedding AI On February 3rd, Reuters dropped a story that should make anyone paying attention stop and stare for a minute: Despite new curbs, Elon Musk’s Grok at times produces sexualized images — even when told subjects didn’t consent. (Reuters) It’s exactly what it sounds like.…
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How NVIDIA and OpenAI Are Building a Duopoly and Why the History Books Already Have the Ending While reading a Reuters exclusive article, I began to see a pattern. Something just didn’t sit right with me. So I did what I always do: looked for a thread to pull. Turned out it was a long…
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Part 5 of a 6-part series on TN SB 1493 / HB 1455 First Amendment, void-for-vagueness, Commerce Clause – pick your poison. This bill violates them all. As highlighted in part 4 of this series, Tennessee’s SB 1493 demonstrably creates enforcement nightmares. It’s also a constitutional minefield that courts will dismantle piece by piece for…