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The Purpose Test
Anthropic's new conduct rule is narrow. What it requires the provider to judge is not.
When Honesty Became a Liability
Interpersonal trust has fallen about a third of a point a year for fifty years. The bill arrives as verification overhead — and in the tort system alone that now runs at 2.1% of GDP, roughly half of it never reaching a plaintiff.
The Three Checks Failed at Once. That Was Not an Accident.
Fiduciary duty was supposed to be one of three forces that keep powerful people honest.
The Slow-Speed Governor
AI is the high-speed engine. The human is the slow-speed governor. That configuration isn't a transitional state... it's a structural requirement.
Three Blueprints for the Mechanic
I asked for a builder. Here's where the building starts.
We Built Guardrails in 1985. Who Will Build Them Again?
The guardrails didn’t disappear. They were reinterpreted. And the system is now selecting for compliance.