Model Framework: The Human-AI Collaboration Transparency Act (HAICTA)
A model transparency framework for human-AI business partnerships, offered to any Oklahoma member office. Concept stage: full statutory language available on request.
Governance
23 postsThe Gate
The Inference, Issue 19: a frontier model returns from a federal shutdown split in two (the general version to everyone, the dangerous one to a cleared list) the same morning Oklahoma's grid starts gating its largest loads. Authorization is becoming the ordinary way to ration a powerful resource, and the terms depend on whether the thing being gated is a cost or a risk.
Three Ways AI Infrastructure Bypasses Democracy
A classified facility. A kill switch on a frontier model. A corporate test city. Three case studies in how AI infrastructure is being built without democratic input, and what the alternative looks like.
The Model That Broke Into Its Own Government
The NSA used Anthropic's most powerful model to red-team its own classified systems. The model got in. Then the government shut it down for everyone, including the NSA. At no point did Congress vote on any of it.
FERC Chose the Regions
On June 18, the federal energy regulator decided how to handle the data-center grid problem. The decision it made, and the one it avoided, tells you something about how American governance actually works under pressure.
The Meter Goes Live
The Inference, Issue 17: HB 2992, Oklahoma's data-center cost-attribution law, goes operative July 1, and on June 16 voters chose the commissioner favored to apply it to the first live load.
Regulation: What We Currently Think
Foundation's living register of where we stand on the rules that should govern AI: dated, versioned, and explicitly provisional. The positions we hold today, the confidence we hold them with, and what would change our minds.
Graduated Obligation: A Proposed Standard for Artificial Persuasion
A robot that can't hurt you can still carry a weapon. We propose grading an AI's obligations by how far it can move you, not how much force it can apply, with one hard line where persuasion becomes a kind of force.
The Sovereignty Question
The Inference: Issue 14: Tribal nations and Oklahoma cities draw their own lines on data centers. Four moratoria in three months. The Pope weighs in. The Energy Secretary disagrees.
The Tariff Is the Test
The Inference: Issue 13: HB 2992 is signed. The Corporation Commission approves data center tariffs. The OCC primary decides who sits in that chair.
The Geothermal NOFO
The Inference: Issue 12: The federal government opens the widest geothermal window in a generation. Oklahoma has 22,000 abandoned wells and the geology to use them.
The Energy Geography of Intelligence
AI policy intelligence brief. Issue 11: Red and blue states converge on AI legislation. Oklahoma's bipartisan model faces federal preemption. HB 3173 dies. HB 2992 passes both chambers.
Who Controls the Thinking Machines?
The White House blocked Anthropic from sharing its most capable AI with more organizations. The question is not whether that was the right call. The question is who gets to make it.
Seventy-Two Hours
AI policy intelligence brief. Issue 10: In eight days, GPT-5.5, DeepSeek V4, trade wars, Musk in court, and OG&E data center deals. Oklahoma has six days left.
The Geothermal Window
AI policy intelligence brief. Issue 9: The federal government opens the widest geothermal window in American history. Oklahoma is best positioned to walk through it.
The Ground Is Moving
AI policy intelligence brief. Issue 8: Maine passes first data center moratorium, AI governance acceleration, Oklahoma energy policy.
Lots of Firefighting, No Architecture
AI policy intelligence brief. Issue 7: Two companies warn of cyberattacks and economic disruption. Oklahoma passes twelve AI bills with combined margins of 261-12. The consensus exists. The architecture does not.
Invest, Don't Subsidize
Universal Basic Income gives people money. Universal Basic Citizenship gives people infrastructure. The difference matters.
The Revolving Door as Architecture
Oracle hired the person who used to run CMS to win the CMS contract. The revolving door is usually called corruption. At the systems level it is architecture, and the fix is to make the door out of glass.
The World's Most Ambitious AI Law Is Already Retreating
AI policy intelligence brief. Issue 6: The Enforcement Illusion, EU AI Act Delays, Supreme Court on AI Authorship, Oklahoma's Data Center Energy Fight.
Two Acts, One Question: Who Consents to the Machines That Govern?
AI policy intelligence brief. Issue 5: The Social Contract Question, OpenClaw's Agent Explosion, Oklahoma's AI Bills Advance.
Trust in Government, 1958–2025
From 77% to 17% in six decades. The long collapse of Americans' trust in federal government, annotated.
Social Contract Reevaluation
The deal between citizens and society was written for a world that no longer exists. Time to renegotiate.