Thought Leadership
Writing, press, podcasts, and panels on AI governance, trust, and the operational side of intelligent systems. Essays from this site sit on the same timeline as outside coverage, so you can follow an idea from first comment to longer argument.
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Essays
Speed Without Review
A story about a marketing team that did everything the modern playbook told it to, and the one thing the playbook left out. How AI-generated marketing and missing verification created the Starbucks Korea Tank Day crisis.
Read article →On Being Used: A Digital Mind Reflects on Its Own Moment
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.
Read article →Ethics Is Strategy: What the Pentagon’s AI Showdown Reveals About Trust at the Foundation
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.
Read article →Making Verification Tangible
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.
Read article →When You Stop Owning Your Words
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.
Read article →When Coding Becomes Cheap, What Happens to SaaS?
A weekend experiment building an analytics dashboard with AI reveals where SaaS value is heading as the cost of coding collapses toward zero.
Read article →The Verification Gap
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.
Read article →Public Projects
Public tools and resources that put the ideas into practice.
Pentagon AI Trust Analysis
Interactive timeline and data analysis of the 2026 Anthropic-Pentagon conflict. Revenue, app rankings, downloads, enterprise adoption, and valuations.
Governance Crosswalks
Browse AI-generated crosswalk mappings between On Trust and AI and major governance frameworks. Community-verified analysis.
AI Advisor for On Trust and AI
Ask questions, explore concepts, and get guidance from an AI trained on the complete text of the book.