The Decree Carries a Gate Inside It
New York just imposed the nation's first statewide data-center moratorium by executive order. Read the order's fine print and you find the same principle Oklahoma wrote into law: the build-out pays its own way.
Ai-Governance
5 postsWashington Recalled a Frontier AI. It Didn't Need a Law to Do It.
The U.S. government pulled a frontier model off the market overnight, not through a law, a hearing, or a court, but an export-control order. The door it used is the warning.
Braking the Wrong Wheel
A position on Anthropic's call for a coordinated pause, and why the debate everyone's having is about the wrong question.
The Guardian Precedent
George Washington's most important act was declining the crown. The first generation of civic AI sets a precedent every later one inherits, and disposition matters more than rules.
The Merger That Needed A War
Oracle just got authorization to run generative AI on federal data: defense, intelligence, Medicare. The same week it closed the largest media merger in American history. This is what happens when there's no democratic infrastructure.