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Articles
Humane Surveillance Is Still Surveillance
Employee-monitoring and data-loss-prevention tools are getting cleaner interfaces and an AI-governance glow-up. A nicer interface is not a nicer ethics. Here is what happened when I tried to design the sovereignty-honoring version of one, and why the honest version stops being surveillance at all.
The Function That Returns a Hard "NO."
If your AI agent's refusal lives in a prompt, it is a request, not a rule. Here is how to tell in five minutes whether your safety is code or copy, and a checklist to fix it.
Write Your First Three Refusals
The hardest part of AI safety is not building the refusal. It is knowing what to forbid. A method and a fill-in template to write your agent's first three refusals today.
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?