Local Fluency, Global Incoherence

"Coherence" is having a moment in AI governance. It shows up in framework names, tool names, pitch decks, LinkedIn bios. Everyone's system is coherent. Everyone's methodology is

Naming is Not Explaining

Two documents crossed my desk this month, in completely different areas, both making the same mistake. The first is mundane: the vocabulary security people use to talk about AI systems. "The model

The Vacuum of Expertise

A few months ago in April, someone described a proposal floated in a government meeting: a ban on AI models above 100 billion parameters. The person relaying it wasn't a technologist.