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
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Layout, Not Light: What the PANIC study actually found, and what it didn’t.
A Finnish study made headlines this month: eight years of tracking kids, and the ones with more screen time showed better cognitive processing as teenagers. Outlets ran with it as a reversal of
The Wrong Variable
There is a question everyone asks about AI and one almost nobody asks about us. Will the system be aligned gets asked constantly, in every register, by people who disagree about nearly everything
The Measurement Problem in AI Risk: Why Output Variance Doesn't Capture Epistemic Drift
Anthropic's recent paper "The Hot Mess of AI: How Does Misalignment Scale with Model Intelligence and Task Complexity?" makes an important empirical observation: frontier models show increasing output variance
When the AI Said "Done" But Nothing Happened: A Case Study in Interface Trust vs. System Reality
Executive Summary
A mid-sized organization deployed a data security platform with an AI-powered chatbot interface to manage sensitive data controls. The team relied on the chatbot to configure critical security policies.