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 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.
Oklahoma just became one of the first states to make data centers measure the groundwater they drink. The fight over it was really a fight about who gets to decide what a shared resource is worth.
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.
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 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.
Universal Basic Income gives people money. Universal Basic Citizenship gives people infrastructure. The difference matters.
Oklahoma's Well Repurposing Act passed 85 to 6, but a single number buried in the bill, a 250 degree threshold, decides whether it unlocks thousands of wells or none.
Click any crisis to start the cascade. Job loss tips into debt, debt into housing loss, housing into family stress, family into child impact. Foundation exists to keep the dominoes standing.
16 components of Universal Basic Citizenship. Full essays. Interactive visualizations. An open invitation: what are we getting wrong?
Pick any Foundation component and watch the investment cascade through all 16. These aren't separate programs. They're one system.
Five questions that map your priorities to the 16 Foundation components. Produces a personalized 'My Foundation' card showing what matters most to you.
These aren't natural conditions. They're the results of decisions made by people with power, in rooms with whiteboards. Here's what we chose, and what we could have chosen instead.
A plain-language, visual guide to what's actually happened with AI, where we are now, and why the next few years matter more than any that came before.
An interactive chord diagram mapping the relationships between human needs, Foundation programs, and their societal impacts.
UBI gives people money. Foundation gives people membership. The difference matters more than you'd think.
The right to an inner life. Because the technology to read minds is closer than you think, and we have no legal framework for it.
Single-payer comprehensive coverage. Because tying healthcare to employment was always a bad idea, and AI is about to prove it.
Safe, affordable housing as infrastructure. Not a market commodity that consumes half your income.
Yes, Foundation includes UBI. Money is one tool among sixteen: necessary but nowhere near sufficient.
Continuous retraining as a right, not a privilege. Because the economy won't stop changing, and people need to keep up.
Mobility as infrastructure, not luxury. Including the self-driving electric fleets that are coming whether we plan for them or not.
Free, lifelong access to learning at every level. Not retraining programs after your industry dies: continuous development as a right.
Comprehensive care for the mind, not just the body. Because the transition ahead will break people who don't have support.
Reliable information and AI tools for everyone, not just those who can afford the subscription.
The energy transition isn't optional. The question is whether it happens for communities or to them.
Universal access to safe, clean water. The most basic test of whether a society is serious about its citizens.
Access to nutritious, sustainable food for all citizens. Not charity: infrastructure.
The deal between citizens and society was written for a world that no longer exists. Time to renegotiate.
Environments where people can express, connect, and heal without fear. Not a metaphor: infrastructure.
Not job training. Not test prep. Education as the lifelong infrastructure of a free mind.
Physical and emotional security isn't a privilege. It's the foundation everything else rests on.