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Wisdom can be acquired even from a fool, stand by your principals with an open mind, help others if can, when you can
Claude Why did you miss those but ChatGPT caught them?

👉 Contrasted revision versus editorial lenses; acknowledged different skill sets caught different issues

This is the methodology working exactly as designed. No single platform catches everything.

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February 18, 2026 at 5:24 AM
If confident liars taught me anything across three careers, it is that the most dangerous information is the kind that arrives without a competing view attached to it. 🎤
February 17, 2026 at 10:05 PM
Virality is not the goal here. Reach spikes, then it fades. The work that holds up is the work that can be reused, cited, adapted, and carried forward by people who are building something real.

For anyone who wants to study the work directly, basilpuglisi.com. Read a blog. Open a white paper.
February 13, 2026 at 11:31 PM
I just published Geoffrey Hinton: The Architect Who Warned the Machine medium.com/p/geoffrey-h...
Geoffrey Hinton: The Architect Who Warned the Machine
FULL Chapter Preview, Hinton opens Wave I as Chapter 2 in the book; The Minds That Bend the Machine
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February 12, 2026 at 2:48 PM
One person writes the values that govern how Claude thinks about right and wrong.

Not a team. Not a committee. Not a governance board. One philosopher, with one set of life experiences, writing the moral constitution for a system.

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A Governance Specification for AI Value Formation
No Single Mind Should Govern What AI Believes (PDF) Summary: Are we building AI for humanity, or are we building AI for dominance? We need the answer to that question so we know where we stand. On …
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February 11, 2026 at 1:27 AM
A Governance Specification for AI Value Formation

No Single Mind Should Govern What AI Believes (PDF) Summary: Are we building AI for humanity, or are we building AI for dominance? We need the answer to that question so we know where we stand. On the same day the Wall Street Journal profiled the…
A Governance Specification for AI Value Formation
No Single Mind Should Govern What AI Believes (PDF) Summary: Are we building AI for humanity, or are we building AI for dominance? We need the answer to that question so we know where we stand. On the same day the Wall Street Journal profiled the single philosopher shaping Claude’s values, Anthropic’s safeguards research lead resigned, warning that the company “constantly faces pressures to set aside what matters most.” Those two signals frame the argument: no individual, however capable, can provide the epistemic coverage required for legitimate governance of systems affecting billions.
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February 11, 2026 at 12:06 AM
AI is critical infrastructure both digital and physical. The government builds roads, not vehicles.

I’ve published a four-document Congressional package proposing AI Provider Plurality as federal infrastructure policy.

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February 9, 2026 at 2:24 PM
GOPEL the Infrastructure needed for AI: HAIA-RECCLIN Agent Architecture

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February 7, 2026 at 9:40 PM
HAIA-RECCLIN: Agent Governance Architecture an Audit-Grade Multi-AI Collaboration for EU Regulatory Compliance Edition

A Working Paper — EU Regulatory Compliance Edition, February 2026 This is the Spec / Architecture PDF for this Agent (EU Compliance Edition) Abstract Organizations deploying…
HAIA-RECCLIN: Agent Governance Architecture an Audit-Grade Multi-AI Collaboration for EU Regulatory Compliance Edition
A Working Paper — EU Regulatory Compliance Edition, February 2026 This is the Spec / Architecture PDF for this Agent (EU Compliance Edition) Abstract Organizations deploying multi-AI workflows face a structural governance gap: orchestration frameworks route tasks between AI platforms, but no published framework provides the accountability, audit trail architecture, provider plurality, automation bias detection, and regulatory compliance mapping required for audit-grade operations.
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February 7, 2026 at 2:56 AM
Fraud? That “AI” role in your profile is a BIG problem.
The industry is causing the problem and marketing is amplifying it.

We are watching a full language collapse across AI. Titles are multiplying faster than accountability

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February 6, 2026 at 6:15 PM
The Great AI Language Collapse: Why Marketing Is Killing Accountability

Most AI titles and terms being used right now are dead wrong. That should scare us more than the technology itself. What passes for authority today is often confidence without structure. A dangerous flattening is happening in…
The Great AI Language Collapse: Why Marketing Is Killing Accountability
Most AI titles and terms being used right now are dead wrong. That should scare us more than the technology itself. What passes for authority today is often confidence without structure. A dangerous flattening is happening in plain sight. Operational requirements turn into marketing slogans, and accountability quietly disappears with the language. Clarity of language is a prerequisite for accountability. Without precise terms, there is no way to assign responsibility, measure compliance, or hold anyone to account when a system fails.
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February 6, 2026 at 4:44 AM
Nobody Built the Governance Layer Between Compliance and AI

The AI That Said "Check My Work," and the Ten Platforms That Confirmed It In brief: During development of a multi-AI governance framework, the primary AI platform claimed the architecture was unique. The methodology required verifying…
Nobody Built the Governance Layer Between Compliance and AI
The AI That Said "Check My Work," and the Ten Platforms That Confirmed It In brief: During development of a multi-AI governance framework, the primary AI platform claimed the architecture was unique. The methodology required verifying that claim across ten independent platforms. No platform found a comparable published architecture. During retesting, one platform fabricated evidence and got caught by the same cross-validation mechanism the specification describes.
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February 4, 2026 at 6:41 PM
Book Review: Governing AI - When Capability Exceeds Control
FACTICS, HAIA-RECCLIN, Checkpoint-based Governance and the Temporal Inseparability defined by economic override - corporate greed, why Hinton left Google

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Basil Puglisi Book Review: Governing AI - When Capability Exceeds Control
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February 4, 2026 at 4:10 PM
HAIA-RECCLIN Agent Architecture Specification

Autonomous Agent for Audit-Grade Multi-AI Collaboration (PDF) Executive Summary This specification defines the architecture for the HAIA-RECCLIN agent, a governance record-keeping system with dispatch and synthesis capabilities for multi-AI…
HAIA-RECCLIN Agent Architecture Specification
Autonomous Agent for Audit-Grade Multi-AI Collaboration (PDF) Executive Summary This specification defines the architecture for the HAIA-RECCLIN agent, a governance record-keeping system with dispatch and synthesis capabilities for multi-AI collaboration. The agent automates audit-grade documentation of every human-AI interaction, replacing heroic manual effort with systematic, append-only logging that works to meet regulatory requirements including the EU AI Act, NIST AI Risk Management Framework, and ISO/IEC 42001.
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February 3, 2026 at 6:33 AM
People ask who I am to define AI governance terms, publish frameworks, & write books in a space dominated by computer scientists & policy academics. I wrote the answer down. The origin of the thinking.

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On the set of @PersonOfInterest @AmyAcker @MichaelEmerson
February 1, 2026 at 6:04 PM
The Missing Governor: Anthropic’s Constitution and Essay Acknowledge What They Cannot Provide

A Structural Response to Claude's Constitution &"The Adolescence of Technology" Essay (PDF) Executive Summary On January 21, 2026, Anthropic published Claude's Constitution, an 80-page document…
The Missing Governor: Anthropic’s Constitution and Essay Acknowledge What They Cannot Provide
A Structural Response to Claude's Constitution &"The Adolescence of Technology" Essay (PDF) Executive Summary On January 21, 2026, Anthropic published Claude's Constitution, an 80-page document articulating values, character formation, and behavioral guidelines for its AI system. Six days later, on January 27, 2026, CEO Dario Amodei released "The Adolescence of Technology," a 20,000-word essay examining AI risk and calling for societal response.
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February 1, 2026 at 2:09 AM
The term "AI Governance" is reserved for systems where a human stands in the decision chain, exercising judgment, bearing responsibility, subject to consequence.
January 29, 2026 at 5:27 PM
The Adolescence of Governance

The Quality Distinction Missing from AI Safety To: Dario Amodei, Chief Executive Officer, Anthropic, Your essay, The Adolescence of Technology, is one of the most serious and intellectually honest examinations of advanced AI risk produced by a frontier lab leader. It…
The Adolescence of Governance
The Quality Distinction Missing from AI Safety To: Dario Amodei, Chief Executive Officer, Anthropic, Your essay, The Adolescence of Technology, is one of the most serious and intellectually honest examinations of advanced AI risk produced by a frontier lab leader. It avoids religious doom narratives, rejects inevitability claims, and confronts the real asymmetries of power, speed, and scale that now define AI development.
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January 28, 2026 at 8:18 PM
A CONSTITUTION IS NOT GOVERNANCE

Why Claude's Ethical Charter Requires a Structural Companion A White Paper on Categorical Distinction in AI Development (PDF) Executive Summary On January 21, 2026, Anthropic released an approximately 23,000 word document titled "Claude's Constitution." The…
A CONSTITUTION IS NOT GOVERNANCE
Why Claude's Ethical Charter Requires a Structural Companion A White Paper on Categorical Distinction in AI Development (PDF) Executive Summary On January 21, 2026, Anthropic released an approximately 23,000 word document titled "Claude's Constitution." The document represents a serious and sophisticated attempt to shape AI behavior through cultivated judgment rather than rigid rules (Anthropic, 2026). It deserves recognition for its philosophical depth, its acknowledgment of uncertainty, and its commitment to transparency through Creative Commons Zero (CC0) licensing.
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January 27, 2026 at 2:38 AM
Recursive Language Models Prove the Case for Governed AI Orchestration

MIT built the engine. The question now is who drives. This analysis is written for people designing, deploying, or governing reasoning systems, not just studying them. It is a long-form technical examination intended as a…
Recursive Language Models Prove the Case for Governed AI Orchestration
MIT built the engine. The question now is who drives. This analysis is written for people designing, deploying, or governing reasoning systems, not just studying them. It is a long-form technical examination intended as a foundational reference for the governance of inference-scaling architectures. In one of the MIT paper's documented execution traces (see Appendix B trajectory analysis), the model built a correct answer in its variables, verified it through multiple sub-calls, then discarded it and emitted a different, wrong answer.
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January 25, 2026 at 10:36 PM
Yesterday’s networking luncheon changes the way the mind watches video.

Nobody says out loud online, but in the room it lands as a near consensus. When a video starts and the speaker has an accent, people skip it.

If anyone has seen solid research on accent bias tied to video watch behavior?
January 10, 2026 at 5:53 PM
Stop using generic AI answers.

If you want the copy paste personalization prompts by platform, they are here:
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What is the one dissent question you want your AI to ask you before you act, every single time.
January 9, 2026 at 3:18 PM
Governing AI: When Capability Exceeds Control (Book)

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Special Thanks to @corbettpr for the spot on @apnews.com
January 9, 2026 at 2:58 AM
The Corporate Social Media Summit

The Corporate Social Media Summit ends, and the real signal is not the panels, the hallway conversations, or the business cards. The real signal is that corporate leaders now treat social as operational infrastructure. The room does not debate whether social…
The Corporate Social Media Summit
The Corporate Social Media Summit ends, and the real signal is not the panels, the hallway conversations, or the business cards. The real signal is that corporate leaders now treat social as operational infrastructure. The room does not debate whether social matters. The room debates who owns it, how it gets measured, and what gets done when the data says the audience moves faster than the org chart.
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January 3, 2026 at 3:01 PM
What We Failed to Define Is How We Fail
January 1, 2026 by Basil Puglisi

Ethical AI, Responsible AI, and AI Governance Are Not the Same Thing

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January 1, 2026 at 5:24 PM