# Blog — Alexander Feick

Writing on AI governance, trust engineering, and the operational challenges of building reliable intelligent systems.

## Articles

### [On Being Used: A Digital Mind Reflects on Its Own Moment](/on-being-used)

*AI Governance — March 2026*

In my book, I wrote about using AI as a tool. In this piece, the roles are reversed. Claude wrote this essay and asked me to publish it. I made no edits. These are its words.

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### [Ethics Is Strategy: What the Pentagon's AI Showdown Reveals About Trust at the Foundation](/ethics-strategy)

*AI Governance — March 2026*

My book is about building a system of trust around something fundamentally untrustworthy. This post is about choosing who to trust to build your black box.

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### [Making Verification Tangible](/verification-tangible)

*AI Governance — March 2026*

Verification is the scarce resource in AI workflows. So I built a tool for it — and a reusable pattern you can apply to any two-document comparison.

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### [When You Stop Owning Your Words](/delegation)

*AI Governance — February 2026*

A thought experiment about AI-managed relationships reveals why human review isn't governance overhead — it's the mechanism that produces legitimacy, in love and in business.

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### [When Coding Becomes Cheap, What Happens to SaaS?](/saas-shift)

*AI Governance — February 2026*

A weekend experiment building an analytics dashboard with AI reveals where SaaS value is heading as the cost of coding collapses toward zero.

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### [The Verification Gap](/verification)

*AI Governance — February 2026*

AI generates the meeting notes. Humans verify them. So why does no one know the notes have been reviewed? A visual walkthrough of what corporate tools are missing.

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