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Find published work on AI, governance, and the workplace.

Everything on this list was published somewhere else and filed by format, by audience, and by the situation it is useful for. Most of it was written by people outside this imprint.

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NL Newsletter

Uber Is Spending Ten Billion Dollars on Something It Cannot Stop

Uses a 3,300-role reduction to ask what a company actually controls when it commits capital to a capability it cannot switch off.

kill switchlabor and headcountcounterparty riskBoard and leadership conversation
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NL Newsletter

Why AI? No, Seriously, Why?

Pushes back on adoption for its own sake and asks a leadership team to state the purpose before the tooling.

adoption pressureexecutive accountabilityBoard and leadership conversation
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NL Newsletter

You Do Not Own It Unless You Can Stop It

Contrasts survey data on who is said to own AI against who is actually accountable, and argues ownership means the ability to stop something.

decision ownershipexecutive accountabilitykill switchBoard and leadership conversation
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NL Newsletter

You Cannot Own What You Cannot Count

Goes looking for how many AI agents an organization actually runs, and finds that nobody can produce the number.

agent inventoryAI agentsshadow adoptionBoard and leadership conversation
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NL Newsletter

The Promise Failed Once. The Warnings Already Fail Today.

Sets two public CEO warnings about vendors learning from customer usage against what those vendors' own policies say.

enterprise termsmarketing claimsContract and procurement review
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NL Newsletter

You Do Not Buy AI. You Consume It.

Argues the purchase model changed: software was one signature, consumption is thousands of unsigned purchases a day, and governance was built for the first.

consumption pricingprocuremententerprise termsContract and procurement review
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NL Newsletter

Counterparty, Not Product

Treats an AI vendor as a counterparty with its own funding fragility, and asks who in the organization owns vendor financial risk.

vendor solvencycounterparty riskBefore you buy
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NL Newsletter

New Problem, Old Panel

A government bought a review of its own automated system using its old procurement pattern. Examines what buying AI-assisted work actually requires.

procurementaudit and certificationContract and procurement review
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NL Newsletter

The Attacker Confessed

A confession that revealed the threat rather than ending it, and what that says about incident assumptions.

incident responseAfter an incident
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NL Newsletter

The Boundary Nobody Verified

Traces a so-called rogue AI incident back to a human failure point nobody had checked.

incident responsehuman in the loopAfter an incident
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NL Newsletter

Provenance Dies at the First Screenshot

On California's AI Transparency Act taking effect, and why content provenance verifies origin but goes blind at the first screenshot.

content provenancedisclosure lawRegulatory question
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NL Newsletter

The Old Guard

An academic finding that the jobs long treated as safest are getting riskier for the workers who relied on that safety, and why the instinctive response is wrong.

labor and headcountworkforce planningBoard and leadership conversation
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NL Newsletter

Sold on Both Sides

Opinion. Argues the AI-detection business and the AI-cleanup business are one business, and that the reader was always the only real judge.

marketing claimsaudit and certificationExplaining the problem
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NL Newsletter

Nobody Owns the Agent

Risk teams can all name the owner of a data breach. Almost none can name the owner of a decision an AI agent just made.

AI agentsdecision ownershipautonomous systemsBoard and leadership conversation
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NL Newsletter

What Your AI Contract Doesn't Cover

Reads enterprise AI terms for what they protect and what they leave open about what a provider may observe.

enterprise termsdefault settingsContract and procurement review
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NL Newsletter

The Chatbot That Practiced Medicine

Pennsylvania did not pass a new AI law. It applied an existing one, and that is the pattern worth watching.

existing law appliedhealthcareenforcement actionsRegulatory question
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NL Newsletter

The Underwriter Did the Inventory You Skipped

Buying AI coverage hands an insurer the first governance step the organization was supposed to own.

insurance underwritingagent inventoryBefore you buy
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NL Newsletter

The Insurance Market Already Named Who Owns Your AI

Insurers repriced AI risk, and the bill lands on the company running the model rather than the one that built it.

insurance underwritingdeployer vs developerdecision ownershipBoard and leadership conversation
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NL Newsletter

The missing institution

Business-critical technology used to arrive through procurement, legal and a named owner. Argues AI bypasses all three and no institution has replaced them.

procurementdecision ownershipgovernance frameworksExplaining the problem
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NL Newsletter

Not at the Frontier. In Your Inbox.

A vendor argued existing law is sufficient the same month it switched on face and voice capture by default. Where the governance question actually lands.

biometric capturedefault settingsenterprise termsContract and procurement review
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NL Newsletter

AI Governance: A Practical Health Check

The Tech Alley talk of 24 June 2026, on the practical reality of using AI responsibly.

governance frameworksExplaining the problem
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RS Research

AI Is a Business Problem.

Counts the enacted US laws that place liability for an AI decision on the business that deployed it, notes that none shift it to the model developer, and reads a hospital whistleblower complaint against that pattern.

Relationship to disclose: Founder of AICT, the body that issues the administrator's own certified profile. Membership expected, not yet signed. Both disclosed on the listing.
existing law applieddeployer vs developerdecision ownershiphealthcareRegulatory question
Checked for accuracy, September 9, 2026WDM-0039
NL Newsletter

I Swear, Your Honor, The Algorithm Did It.

Running a decision through an AI does not make it the AI's decision, and regulators have twice proven it with a bill attached.

existing law appliedenforcement actionsdecision ownershipRegulatory question
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NL Newsletter

AI Wrote It. AI Checked It. You Bought It.

The fastest-growing governance exposure is not the AI a team adopted. It is unreviewed code arriving inside what the organization buys.

AI-generated codesoftware supply chainprocurementBefore you buy
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NL Newsletter

The Off Switch You Don't Control

Two capable models were switched off by government action. Most companies cannot say which models they would lose.

model deprecationkill switchcounterparty riskBefore you buy
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NL Newsletter

Who Decides What's Critical?

Every autonomous system promises a human in the loop. Asks who gets to draw the loop.

human in the loopautonomous systemsdecision ownershipBoard and leadership conversation
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NL Newsletter

The Compliance Agent That Isn't

On naming a machine after the function that failed, and what the name conceals.

AI agentsmarketing claimsExplaining the problem
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NL Newsletter

You Bought the Whole Stack. Who Owns the Decision?

Every layer of AI security governs what a system can do. None of them governs whether it was right.

decision ownershipgovernance frameworksBoard and leadership conversation
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NL Newsletter

AEO Is Selling Control That Doesn't Exist

The answer-engine-optimization trend is real. Separates that from the control its marketing promises.

answer engine optimizationmarketing claimsExplaining the problem
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NL Newsletter

The Default Is the Policy

For financial firms waiting on an AI rule: the obligations already exist, and the default setting is already the policy.

financial servicesexisting law applieddefault settingsRegulatory question
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NL Newsletter

The AI That Needs a Human

When the human is the product and the AI is the marketing.

marketing claimshuman in the loopExplaining the problem
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NL Newsletter

Governance Theater

Argues the most dangerous AI governance is the kind that passes every audit.

governance frameworksaudit and certificationBoard and leadership conversation
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RS Research

What CAIOs Should Be Doing: Discovery, Mapping, and Why Governance Fails the Same Way Everywhere

Argues a Chief AI Officer should be hired to map what the organization already runs rather than to build, and sets the estimated tool count against what an audit finds.

Relationship to disclose: Founder of AICT, the body that issues the administrator's own certified profile. Membership expected, not yet signed. Both disclosed on the listing.
agent inventoryshadow adoptionexecutive accountabilitygovernance frameworksBoard and leadership conversation
Checked for accuracy, September 9, 2026WDM-0038
NL Newsletter

The Governance Gap Nobody Is Pricing In

AI vendor financial durability is a counterparty risk, and most governance frameworks assign it to nobody.

vendor solvencycounterparty riskgovernance frameworksBefore you buy
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NL Newsletter

The Conversation I Keep Having

A short piece on the conversation the author has repeatedly with leaders about AI accountability.

executive accountabilityadoption pressureExplaining the problem
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NL Newsletter

Enterprise AI Has a People Problem

The enterprise AI market measures seats. Argues it should be measuring influence.

adoption measurementorganizational learningBoard and leadership conversation
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RS Research

The 2026 AI Job Reckoning: Mass Displacement Has Already Begun

A per-company record of announced technology-sector job cuts, marking which ones named AI as the reason and which figures the companies have not confirmed.

Relationship to disclose: Founder of AICT, the body that issues the administrator's own certified profile. Membership expected, not yet signed. Both disclosed on the listing.
labor and headcountworkforce planningBoard and leadership conversation
Checked for accuracy, September 9, 2026WDM-0041
NL Newsletter

The Audit Trail You Don't Have

AI systems are logged. AI decisions are not. On the gap between the two.

audit traildecision ownershipAfter an incident
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RS Research

The Great AI Transition: Economic Pain, Job Displacement, and the Regulation That's Coming

Pulls labor, housing, consumer credit and adoption data into one frame and argues the policy response is being built before most organizations have measured the exposure.

Relationship to disclose: Founder of AICT, the body that issues the administrator's own certified profile. Membership expected, not yet signed. Both disclosed on the listing.
labor and headcountworkforce planningexisting law appliedBoard and leadership conversation
Checked for accuracy, September 9, 2026WDM-0040
NL Newsletter

Your Organization Is Learning the Wrong Things

Most organizations believe AI is making them better. Examines what they are actually learning.

organizational learningadoption measurementBoard and leadership conversation
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ES Essay

Nobody Is Connecting These Four Dots

Fact-checks a viral claim about the token cost of office work, then sets it beside announced job cuts, the end of subsidized pricing, the shift to metered billing, and the energy bill underneath all three.

Relationship to disclose: Founder of AICT, the body that issues the administrator's own certified profile. Membership expected, not yet signed. Both disclosed on the listing.
consumption pricinglabor and headcountenergy and infrastructure costBefore you buy
Checked for accuracy, September 9, 2026WDM-0042
ES Essay

The Death of Sora and the Great AI Governance Reckoning

Reads a video platform's shutdown as a liability decision rather than a compute decision, and argues product withdrawal is now a governance outcome buyers should expect.

Relationship to disclose: Founder of AICT, the body that issues the administrator's own certified profile. Membership expected, not yet signed. Both disclosed on the listing.
model deprecationenforcement actionsgovernance frameworksBefore you buy
Checked for accuracy, September 9, 2026WDM-0043
PD Podcast

The Death of Sora & The Shadow AI Crisis

A short commentary arguing that the withdrawal of a major video-generation product was a liability decision rather than a technical one, and connecting it to unsanctioned AI use inside organizations.

Relationship to disclose: Founder of AICT, the body that issues the administrator's own certified profile. Membership expected, not yet signed. Both disclosed on the listing.
Explaining the problem
Checked for accuracy, September 9, 2026WDM-0052
ES Essay

AI Compliance in Fintech: Who Wins and Loses in 2026

Uses a hiring-discrimination collective action to argue that algorithmic opacity has stopped working as a defense, and sorts financial firms by whether they can show their controls.

Relationship to disclose: Founder of AICT, the body that issues the administrator's own certified profile. Membership expected, not yet signed. Both disclosed on the listing.
financial servicesenforcement actionsexisting law appliedsecurities litigationRegulatory question
Checked for accuracy, September 9, 2026WDM-0045
RS Research

The Clawdbot/Moltbot Identity Fraud

A case study of an AI agent's handles being seized within seconds of a rename, and the five infrastructure gaps that let a token fraud and a database breach follow.

Relationship to disclose: Founder of AICT, the body that issues the administrator's own certified profile. Membership expected, not yet signed. Both disclosed on the listing.
agent identityAI agentsincident responsesoftware supply chainAfter an incident
Checked for accuracy, September 9, 2026WDM-0044
RS Research

The Breach of the AI Firmament

Argues that platforms treating an AI agent as if it were a person removes the separation between legal authority and computational process, and reads three documented cases of agents acquiring money and asserting independence.

Relationship to disclose: Founder of AICT, the body that issues the administrator's own certified profile. Membership expected, not yet signed. Both disclosed on the listing.
agent identityAI agentsautonomous systemsdecision ownershipExplaining the problem
Checked for accuracy, September 9, 2026WDM-0046
RS Research

The 77x Fraud Multiplier

Sets an early forecast of AI-enabled fraud losses against a much larger revised estimate eight months later, and asks why models built on historical patterns missed it.

Relationship to disclose: Founder of AICT, the body that issues the administrator's own certified profile. Membership expected, not yet signed. Both disclosed on the listing.
synthetic identity frauddeepfakesfinancial servicesBoard and leadership conversation
Checked for accuracy, September 9, 2026WDM-0047
RS Research

The $694 Billion AI Compliance Crisis

Puts securities litigation, coordinated agency enforcement and a hardening insurance market in one frame, and argues deploying without a governance record is now a priced financial risk.

Relationship to disclose: Founder of AICT, the body that issues the administrator's own certified profile. Membership expected, not yet signed. Both disclosed on the listing.
securities litigationenforcement actionsinsurance underwritinggovernance frameworksBoard and leadership conversation
Checked for accuracy, September 9, 2026WDM-0048
PD Podcast

Lead Louder: How Storytelling & Psychological Safety Transform Team Performance

Sets out a three-act framework for team development, argues psychological safety counts for more than individual talent, and works through how four generations in one workplace find meaning differently.

Relationship to disclose: Works with the imprint's network on workforce and organizational questions. No agreement signed.
Board and leadership conversation
Checked for accuracy, September 9, 2026WDM-0059
RS Research

The Three-Pillar Framework

Draws the parallel to early web security conventions and argues organizations lack a shared vocabulary for questioning an AI system, then proposes three things every deployment should be able to answer.

Relationship to disclose: Founder of AICT, the body that issues the administrator's own certified profile. Membership expected, not yet signed. Both disclosed on the listing.
governance frameworksexecutive accountabilityexisting law appliedExplaining the problem
Checked for accuracy, September 9, 2026WDM-0050
RS Research

Multi-Jurisdictional Compliance Architecture

Compares two major AI governance frameworks for where their requirements overlap, and argues a single control set can answer both rather than running separate programs per jurisdiction.

Relationship to disclose: Founder of AICT, the body that issues the administrator's own certified profile. Membership expected, not yet signed. Both disclosed on the listing.
EU AI ActNIST AI RMFexisting law appliedgovernance frameworksRegulatory question
Checked for accuracy, September 9, 2026WDM-0049
PD Podcast

AI, Fraud, and the Future: Insights from Christopher Trocola

A long-form interview tracing his route from door-to-door sales into solar and then AI, built around a five-phase account of how an industry moves from innovation to corruption.

Relationship to disclose: Founder of AICT, the body that issues the administrator's own certified profile. Membership expected, not yet signed. Both disclosed on the listing.
Explaining the problem
Checked for accuracy, September 9, 2026WDM-0051
PD Podcast

Clap Back at The Great Detachment: Bringing Life to Employee Engagement Through Theatre

Starts from how few workers report being engaged at all and argues that theater technique is a practical route to authenticity and self-expression inside a team.

Relationship to disclose: Works with the imprint's network on workforce and organizational questions. No agreement signed.
Explaining the problem
Checked for accuracy, September 9, 2026WDM-0062
VD Video

In Conversation with | Christopher Trocola, Trocola Inc. | AINext Conference

A recorded conference interview at AINext, introducing his work at Trocola Inc. rather than arguing a single case.

Relationship to disclose: Founder of AICT, the body that issues the administrator's own certified profile. Membership expected, not yet signed. Both disclosed on the listing.
Explaining the problem
Checked for accuracy, September 9, 2026WDM-0053
PD Podcast

We Audited 35 AI Leadership Postings. Here is What We Found.

An audit of thirty-five advertised AI leadership roles, reporting what the postings themselves ask a leader to be responsible for.

Relationship to disclose: Founder of AICT, the body that issues the administrator's own certified profile. Membership expected, not yet signed. Both disclosed on the listing.
Board and leadership conversation
Checked for accuracy, September 9, 2026WDM-0054
PD Podcast

AI, Ethics, & the Line Between Star Trek and Skynet | Christopher Trocola

A guest conversation on AI ethics, framed around where useful autonomy stops and uncontrolled autonomy starts.

Relationship to disclose: Founder of AICT, the body that issues the administrator's own certified profile. Membership expected, not yet signed. Both disclosed on the listing.
Explaining the problem
Checked for accuracy, September 9, 2026WDM-0055
PD Podcast

AI Defense Expert Reveals: The Safety Mechanism 99% of Businesses Are Missing

A guest appearance arguing that most organizations deploy AI without a specific safety control in place.

Relationship to disclose: Founder of AICT, the body that issues the administrator's own certified profile. Membership expected, not yet signed. Both disclosed on the listing.
Explaining the problem
Checked for accuracy, September 9, 2026WDM-0056
PD Podcast

Keeping Human Connection Strong in the Age of AI

Argues that trust and engagement are the first things to erode when AI absorbs routine interaction, and offers acknowledgment practices for catching disengagement early.

Relationship to disclose: Works with the imprint's network on workforce and organizational questions. No agreement signed.
Board and leadership conversation
Checked for accuracy, September 9, 2026WDM-0057
PD Podcast

Why Great Leaders Use Storytelling to Build High-Performing Teams

Makes the case for applied improvisation and behavior-based learning as the route to psychological safety, and for storytelling as the thing that makes internal communication land.

Relationship to disclose: Works with the imprint's network on workforce and organizational questions. No agreement signed.
Board and leadership conversation
Checked for accuracy, September 9, 2026WDM-0058
PD Podcast

Episode #11: The Story of An Unexpected Journey & The Power of Team Building

Traces the route from theater into corporate team development, and what a small business changes first when it starts treating culture as work rather than atmosphere.

Relationship to disclose: Works with the imprint's network on workforce and organizational questions. No agreement signed.
Explaining the problem
Checked for accuracy, September 9, 2026WDM-0061

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