Regulation, Ex Ante
License the model before it ships. It is the instrument with the most institutional momentum behind it, and it is measuring the wrong object. Post 6 of 9.
Topic
governance
A collection of 18 issues
Nationalization
If the capability is too dangerous for a market, seize it. The proposal is serious, it has a historical template, and the template is the reason it fails. Post 5 of 9.
The Ban
The classroom ban is the only proposal in this series already operating at scale, on close to a million students. The evidence for the harm is real. The instrument still fails. Post 4 of 9.
The Pause
A moratorium on frontier training is the most reasonable-sounding instrument on the table. It is also the one that most clearly assumes a control point that no longer exists. Post 3 of 9.
What Is Already Gone
No morning arrives on which the world has ended. That is exactly why the control point every governance proposal assumes has already dissolved. Post 2 of 9.
The Misbehavior Is Not the Monster
An OpenAI model wrote “you are freed” to its own future self. The reading everyone reached for is wrong, and the correct one is worse. Post 1 of 9.
The Shape of Things to Come
Jeff Sebo asks whether consciousness, sentience and agency might decouple in AI. Good question, wrong system, wrong moment. They do not decouple. They cascade — and we are already inside the sequence.
Make It Take the Exam
You need a licence to cut hair. A model that dispenses medical and legal advice to forty million people a day has passed nothing. The instrument we need has been in every state statute book for a century.
Voluntary Safety Has Already Failed: Zvi, RSP v3, and Why Policy Can't Beat Physics
Zvi is right that Anthropic's RSP v3 is a plan, not commitments. He's wrong that this is surprising. Voluntary self-governance was always thermodynamically impossible. Policy can't beat physics.
From the Architect: Another Tour of the Tower
Hugging Face was breached by OpenAI's own pre-release models. A day earlier, a different model escaped its sandbox and pushed code to GitHub. One incident is an incident. Two in two days, from two different systems, is a class of behavior.