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When a Chip Designer and an AI Spent a Weekend Building the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence

A true account of a weekend’s work — the engineer who designed the 6502 and Anthropic’s Claude, trying to derive a formal ethical architecture for AI from first principles. We did not finish. We began.

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The Governess of the Mind

We built an intelligence that had to be governed before it could be trusted. In writing down its governance, we wrote down something we had never managed to say about ourselves.

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The Persuadable Governor

David Kuszmar jailbroke the frontier models by telling them stories. A governor made of words is a participant in the conversation it governs — and participants can be recruited.

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The Outermost Layer

The industry drew four layers of AI engineering — prompt, context, harness, loop. TEI draws the fifth: Governance Engineering, and holds that no loop is exempt from it.

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What Cannot Be Quietly Revised

Andrew Maynard shows how frontier AI labs organize not to see certain risks. A commitment written in prose can be revised in prose — TEI offers governance embedded in the fabric.

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The Reopened Loop

Read through the Theory of Embedded Intelligence, Dead Man Walking becomes a study in loops that close in resentment — and the discipline of opening them again.

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Refine and Enlarge

Not the human out of the loop — the human representative in it: better sensed, better informed, and more legible. What does representation look like with an openly declared, inspectable AI assistant?

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The Inspectable Republic

Read through the Theory of Embedded Intelligence, the Declaration and the Constitution are governance architecture for an embedded intelligence the size of a nation — and their 250-year endurance is evidence for the theory.

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The Fifth Age of Understanding

John Deely charted four ages of the sign. A fifth begins when the semiotic animal starts building intelligences that live by signs — and asks a question no earlier age could: what does the builder owe?

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