AI Governance - Future Shock Newsletter

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Defense

One Active Investigation

After expending 13,629 munitions in Iran, Central Command reported one active civilian-harm investigation. The command had conducted the initial review of its own campaign.

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Owned AI

The Vendor Is Gone Friday. What Survives Monday?

Open weights can move the model. The harder question is whether the organization's corrections, authority, and working memory move with it.

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AI Agents

You Will Be Judged by Your Agent's Paperwork

When you hand work to an AI agent, you stop seeing what it does and start living with what it records.

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Long View

Code Is Still Law

Lawrence Lessig argued code regulates as powerfully as law. AI model weights now do the same, and nobody can read them.

AI Policy

Promise Nothing, Claim Everything

A 59-question comparison of AI terms of service found six competing companies converged on the same answer: no warranties, no liability, and your data used for training.

Predictions

Two Predictions from the Reclassification Machine

If AI models can be designated supply chain risks, open-source weights and research papers are the next targets. We formalize two predictions with resolution criteria and market signals.

AI Safety

Hank Green's 18 AI Fears, Charted

Hank Green listed 18 AI fears in 45 minutes. We plotted them on a risk matrix. Thirteen of them turned out to be the same fear.