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Thomas Tornatore, Fellowship Intelligence · The Wrong Default, September 3, 2026
Uses a 3,300-role reduction to ask what a company actually controls when it commits capital to a capability it cannot switch off.
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Thomas Tornatore, Fellowship Intelligence · The Wrong Default, September 2, 2026
Pushes back on adoption for its own sake and asks a leadership team to state the purpose before the tooling.
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Thomas Tornatore, Fellowship Intelligence · The Wrong Default, August 27, 2026
Contrasts survey data on who is said to own AI against who is actually accountable, and argues ownership means the ability to stop something.
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Thomas Tornatore, Fellowship Intelligence · The Wrong Default, August 25, 2026
Goes looking for how many AI agents an organization actually runs, and finds that nobody can produce the number.
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Thomas Tornatore, Fellowship Intelligence · The Wrong Default, August 20, 2026
Sets two public CEO warnings about vendors learning from customer usage against what those vendors' own policies say.
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Thomas Tornatore, Fellowship Intelligence · The Wrong Default, August 18, 2026
Argues the purchase model changed: software was one signature, consumption is thousands of unsigned purchases a day, and governance was built for the first.
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Thomas Tornatore, Fellowship Intelligence · The Wrong Default, August 13, 2026
Treats an AI vendor as a counterparty with its own funding fragility, and asks who in the organization owns vendor financial risk.
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Thomas Tornatore, Fellowship Intelligence · The Wrong Default, August 11, 2026
A government bought a review of its own automated system using its old procurement pattern. Examines what buying AI-assisted work actually requires.
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Thomas Tornatore, Fellowship Intelligence · The Wrong Default, August 6, 2026
A confession that revealed the threat rather than ending it, and what that says about incident assumptions.
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Thomas Tornatore, Fellowship Intelligence · The Wrong Default, August 4, 2026
Traces a so-called rogue AI incident back to a human failure point nobody had checked.
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Thomas Tornatore, Fellowship Intelligence · The Wrong Default, August 1, 2026
On California's AI Transparency Act taking effect, and why content provenance verifies origin but goes blind at the first screenshot.
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Thomas Tornatore, Fellowship Intelligence · The Wrong Default, July 30, 2026
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.
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Thomas Tornatore, Fellowship Intelligence · The Wrong Default, July 28, 2026
Opinion. Argues the AI-detection business and the AI-cleanup business are one business, and that the reader was always the only real judge.
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Thomas Tornatore, Fellowship Intelligence · The Wrong Default, July 28, 2026
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.
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Thomas Tornatore, Fellowship Intelligence · The Wrong Default, July 21, 2026
Reads enterprise AI terms for what they protect and what they leave open about what a provider may observe.
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Thomas Tornatore, Fellowship Intelligence · The Wrong Default, July 14, 2026
Pennsylvania did not pass a new AI law. It applied an existing one, and that is the pattern worth watching.
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Thomas Tornatore, Fellowship Intelligence · The Wrong Default, July 9, 2026
Buying AI coverage hands an insurer the first governance step the organization was supposed to own.
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Thomas Tornatore, Fellowship Intelligence · The Wrong Default, July 7, 2026
Insurers repriced AI risk, and the bill lands on the company running the model rather than the one that built it.
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Thomas Tornatore, Fellowship Intelligence · The Wrong Default, July 3, 2026
Business-critical technology used to arrive through procurement, legal and a named owner. Argues AI bypasses all three and no institution has replaced them.
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Thomas Tornatore, Fellowship Intelligence · The Wrong Default, July 2, 2026
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.
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Thomas Tornatore, Fellowship Intelligence · The Wrong Default, July 2, 2026
The Tech Alley talk of 24 June 2026, on the practical reality of using AI responsibly.
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Christopher Trocola, Trocola Inc. · AICT Research (Trocola Inc.), July 1, 2026
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.
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Thomas Tornatore, Fellowship Intelligence · The Wrong Default, June 30, 2026
Running a decision through an AI does not make it the AI's decision, and regulators have twice proven it with a bill attached.
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Thomas Tornatore, Fellowship Intelligence · The Wrong Default, June 25, 2026
The fastest-growing governance exposure is not the AI a team adopted. It is unreviewed code arriving inside what the organization buys.
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Thomas Tornatore, Fellowship Intelligence · The Wrong Default, June 24, 2026
Two capable models were switched off by government action. Most companies cannot say which models they would lose.
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Thomas Tornatore, Fellowship Intelligence · The Wrong Default, June 23, 2026
Every autonomous system promises a human in the loop. Asks who gets to draw the loop.
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Thomas Tornatore, Fellowship Intelligence · The Wrong Default, June 18, 2026
On naming a machine after the function that failed, and what the name conceals.
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Thomas Tornatore, Fellowship Intelligence · The Wrong Default, June 16, 2026
Every layer of AI security governs what a system can do. None of them governs whether it was right.
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Thomas Tornatore, Fellowship Intelligence · The Wrong Default, June 11, 2026
The answer-engine-optimization trend is real. Separates that from the control its marketing promises.
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Thomas Tornatore, Fellowship Intelligence · The Wrong Default, June 9, 2026
For financial firms waiting on an AI rule: the obligations already exist, and the default setting is already the policy.
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Thomas Tornatore, Fellowship Intelligence · The Wrong Default, June 4, 2026
When the human is the product and the AI is the marketing.
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Thomas Tornatore, Fellowship Intelligence · The Wrong Default, June 2, 2026
Argues the most dangerous AI governance is the kind that passes every audit.
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Christopher Trocola, Trocola Inc. · AICT Research (Trocola Inc.), June 1, 2026
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.
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Thomas Tornatore, Fellowship Intelligence · The Wrong Default, May 28, 2026
AI vendor financial durability is a counterparty risk, and most governance frameworks assign it to nobody.
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Thomas Tornatore, Fellowship Intelligence · The Wrong Default, May 25, 2026
A short piece on the conversation the author has repeatedly with leaders about AI accountability.
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Thomas Tornatore, Fellowship Intelligence · The Wrong Default, May 8, 2026
The enterprise AI market measures seats. Argues it should be measuring influence.
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Christopher Trocola, Trocola Inc. · AICT Research (Trocola Inc.), May 6, 2026
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.
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Thomas Tornatore, Fellowship Intelligence · The Wrong Default, May 1, 2026
For leadership teams using AI in consequential decisions: governance is available now and does not require a regulator first.
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Thomas Tornatore, Fellowship Intelligence · The Wrong Default, May 1, 2026
AI systems are logged. AI decisions are not. On the gap between the two.
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Christopher Trocola, Trocola Inc. · AICT Research (Trocola Inc.), May 1, 2026
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.
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Thomas Tornatore, Fellowship Intelligence · The Wrong Default, April 14, 2026
Most organizations believe AI is making them better. Examines what they are actually learning.
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Christopher Trocola, Trocola Inc. · AI Pulse Media (Trocola Inc.), April 6, 2026
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.
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Christopher Trocola, Trocola Inc. · AI Pulse Media (Trocola Inc.), March 25, 2026
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.
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Christopher Trocola, Trocola Inc. · Christopher Trocola (YouTube), March 25, 2026
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.
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Christopher Trocola, Trocola Inc. · Fintech Bloom, February 4, 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.
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Christopher Trocola, Trocola Inc. · AICT Research (Trocola Inc.), February 1, 2026
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.
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Christopher Trocola, Trocola Inc. · AICT Research (Trocola Inc.), February 1, 2026
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.
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Christopher Trocola, Trocola Inc. · AICT Research (Trocola Inc.), January 21, 2026
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.
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Christopher Trocola, Trocola Inc. · AICT Research (Trocola Inc.), January 1, 2026
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.
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Jesse Pudles, SpotCorp · Stay On Course: Ingredients for Success, December 19, 2025
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.
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Christopher Trocola, Trocola Inc. · AICT Research (Trocola Inc.), December 12, 2025
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.
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Christopher Trocola, Trocola Inc. · AICT Research (Trocola Inc.), October 1, 2025
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.
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Christopher Trocola, Trocola Inc. · The White Nile, October 1, 2025
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.
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Jesse Pudles, SpotCorp · The People Power Project Podcast, February 20, 2025
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.
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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.
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Christopher Trocola, Trocola Inc. · Christopher Trocola (YouTube)
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.
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Christopher Trocola, Trocola Inc. · Built on Behavior
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.
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Christopher Trocola, Trocola Inc. · David Meltzer TV
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.
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Jesse Pudles, SpotCorp · Etech Leadership & CX Podcast
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.
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Jesse Pudles, SpotCorp · Etech Leadership & CX Podcast
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.
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Jesse Pudles, SpotCorp · The American Business Podcast
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.
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