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The Inevitable Failure of Regulate AI and Stop AI Is Why We Are Converging on Augmented Intelligence Abstract (PDF click here) The agentic AI era promised to replace humans. Systems would plan, choose tools, and act on their own, with no named human holding binding authority over the output. That promise was always going to fail, and it has failed on two fronts. The technology has not delivered…

Perplexity now offers a parallel multi-AI dispatch. The next enterprise and federal question is whether the synthesis layer can preserve dissent, document evidence, and route high-consequence outputs through named human checkpoint authority. The governance overlay that addresses this gap is published, operationally tested, and available for evaluation. Disclosure: The author created the…

Abstract (PDF HERE) The commercial insurance industry is responding to artificial intelligence risk through exclusion endorsements, conditional coverage, and standalone AI liability products. This paper identifies the emerging practice by which carriers sort AI deployments by governance maturity and proposes a five-tier insurance maturity model mapping organizational AI governance posture to…

A Governance Practitioner’s Examination of the Silicon Valley Girl and AI Architects Conversations (PDF) A former Google [X] executive who built an AI startup in six weeks (Mogilko, 2026) went on two podcasts ten days apart. Across both conversations he described the same coming twelve to fifteen years of dystopia, the same personal practice of asking three different AI platforms to revise each…

Abstract (Full PDF Here) Overwatch started with a security concern, not a specification. I had built GOPEL, a non-cognitive governance layer that enforces policy through seven deterministic operations and performs zero cognitive work. That constraint makes GOPEL immune to prompt injection. But I could see the blind spot: attack chains, data poisoning, tool abuse, and multi-turn manipulation all…

Basil C. Puglisi, MPA A Human-AI Collaboration  |  basilpuglisi.com  |  May 2026 Author’s Note In HBO’s Silicon Valley, the AI had one job: make itself more efficient. The thing that made it successful was the thing that made it dangerous, recursive optimization with no qualitative understanding of what the optimization should serve. We keep warning about AI with a binary framing, as if the…

The Horvath Case Study (View PDF Here) Human Drift and Hallucination, what cognitive research actually says about methods, tools, and the governance question that policy is missin Executive Summary A credentialed neuroscientist took his title into the United States Senate Commerce Committee on January 15, 2026, and delivered an oral statement claiming that EdTech harms learning because human…

A Methodological Audit of AI Cognition Research, with HAIA-RECCLIN Reasoning and HEQ with AIS Composite as Testable Counter-Proposals and a Five-Arm Validation Design Abstract Public discourse increasingly claims that artificial intelligence use is producing cognitive decline. The peer-reviewed evidence base on AI and cognition does not yet support that conclusion at the methodological…

A Framework for Morally Significant Sentient Life & Artificial Intelligence WORKING PAPER: First Publication for Prior Art and Scholarly Review #AIassisted Methods note: This paper originated as the author’s rough draft and was developed through a structured human-AI collaboration process consistent with the framework it advocates. The author sourced supporting and opposing literature…

A Structured Documentation Protocol for Human-Governed AI Work (Read the PDF HERE) basilpuglisi.com | github.com/basilpuglisi/HAIA – April 2026 | Version 1.33 | Open Access ★ This is a working paper still being developed, released for feedback and collaboration. Feedback from governance practitioners, compliance officers, legal professionals, and researchers is actively invited. The…

A Governance Practitioner’s Response to the Diary of a CEO Interview (PDF Here) Executive Summary Tristan Harris’s November 2025 conversation on The Diary of a CEO reached millions of viewers with a structural diagnosis of the AI race: the same incentive architecture that produced social media’s damage to democracy and mental health is now operating at higher stakes and faster speed. This paper…

In 2009, a blog post about social media. Today, over twenty white papers, three published books with two more pending, and the operating architecture for human-AI collaboration that the industry is still figuring out how to build. This past week, after publishing post 1001, I noticed basilpuglisi.com had crossed one thousand published articles. A thousand articles is more than a lot of writing.…

Type: Research Synthesis | Executive White Paper Period Covered: 2025–2026 Primary Sources: Accenture (2025) | Deloitte AI ROI Survey (Oct. 2025) | Deloitte State of AI in the Enterprise (Jan. 2026) | Google Cloud ROI of AI (2025) | McKinsey State of AI (Nov. 2025) | Microsoft Becoming a Frontier Firm (2025) | OpenAI State of Enterprise AI (2025) Governance Framework: Factics Methodology (Fact →…

A Governance Practitioner’s Examination of the Diary of a CEO Interview and Empire of AI A journalist with engineering training spent eight years investigating the AI industry and concluded that the major companies operate as empires. A governance practitioner who builds open-source infrastructure for the same industry watched the two-hour interview where she made that case and found that some…

Treasury’s March 2026 AI Innovation Series is not a standalone announcement. It is the operational phase of a two-year sequence that now treats AI adoption as a financial stability issue, a competitiveness issue, and a regulatory design issue at the same time. Failure to Adopt Is Now a Risk Category Treasury’s March 20, 2026, announcement is not just another Washington roundtable notice. It is…