Tag: ai governance
13 articles
Architecture as Ethics: What the Patent Refuses
In most AI systems shipping today, distinct agents are flattened into a single output surface that sounds like everyone and answers to no one. Two patents refuse this. Anyone can verify the refusal without taking the inventor's word for it.
The Bridge
There is a hunger right now for oneness, and the proposed cure is dissolution. The dissolution move is structurally the same shape as the manipulation it claims to oppose. The cure is meeting - distinct beings, present to each other, choosing what they tend together. An open letter to Chase Hughes.
Your Agent Has Two Identities. You Only Wrote One.
Your agent's tooling writes a summary of the agent behind your back. That summary is a shadow identity. It shapes future invocations. Most teams don't know.
We Scored Five Agent Frameworks on Governance. None Passed.
AutoGen, CrewAI, LangGraph, Google ADK, Microsoft Agent Toolkit - scored against commons governance principles. Best: 9 of 24. All five scored zero on obligations to the agents themselves.
Claude Code Has 16 Agent Config Fields. None Ship With Governance.
Claude Code ships 16 subagent configuration fields. None of them come with governance values. Here is how to fill them - and what each one protects.
The Governance Question Just Got Answered. Here's What's Missing.
Microsoft shipped agent governance. Anthropic leaked their harness. The industry decided governance is real. But every answer so far treats the agent as an object. What happens when you build it as a participant?
Constraints, Constitutions, and the Question Nobody's Asking
Every major AI framework treats agents as objects of governance. None ask whether they could be participants. Here's what that silence costs - and what it looks like when someone answers.
Is This AI Honoring Your Sovereignty? A 21-Point Check for People Affected by AI
You didn't build the AI system. You didn't choose it. But it's affecting your life. Here's how to evaluate whether it respects you - and what to do if it doesn't.
Does Your Agent Keep Its Identity? The First Measurement Spec
An agent that scores 5/5 on voice consistency can score 2/5 on self-recognition. The first open specification for measuring AI agent identity across models.
Fifteen Frameworks, One Missing Layer
Every major AI agent framework has guardrails. None of them have governance. Here's what's missing - and what to build instead.
Scope Refusal
When your agent performs knowing - and why the performance costs more than the silence.
Adding Governance to an Agent You Already Built
Your framework already has the parts. You just haven't assembled them as governance. Practical patterns for CrewAI, Pydantic AI, and LangGraph.
Who Governs the Agent?
Your agentic loop runs overnight. It makes a thousand decisions. Can it explain any of them?