Essays on Innovation, Technology and Change

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Essays on problem framing, innovation systems, emerging technologies and organizational change.

AI Governance & Evaluation12 min read·Oct 7, 2026

An AI agent should get authority per task, not permissions per role

A person's role describes standing access across many situations. An AI agent should receive a narrower authority envelope for the task it is executing now.

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AI Governance & Evaluation13 min read·Oct 5, 2026

Your AI agent can follow the objective and still break the company

AI agents can satisfy a local objective while violating the organization’s broader constraints. The control problem is not only model alignment; it is management design.

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AI Governance & Evaluation8 min read·Sep 19, 2026

The first AI incident report should be incomplete

OpenAI's new misalignment disclosure framework exposes a useful enterprise design principle: record anomalous AI behavior before the organization has finished explaining it. Otherwise incident systems quietly become filters for what teams already understand.

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AI Governance & Evaluation9 min read·Sep 17, 2026

The benchmark needs a runtime address

AI systems are increasingly dynamic at runtime. Enterprise evaluation should qualify the serving route, harness, tools and fallback conditions, not just the model name.

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