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Ideas that shape how AI is governed.

Practical perspectives on AI governance, responsible innovation, financial services, regulation, standards and public policy.

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Cognitive Governance for Persistent AI Agents

Governance for AI that acts.

AI agents can pursue goals, coordinate work, and make consequential decisions across systems and time. As information and circumstances change, their authority needs to remain clear.

Cognitive Governance is a proposed approach that connects an agent’s beliefs, goals, and intended actions to enforceable permissions—and tests whether those controls actually govern what happens.

DecisionX is exploring how verifiable cognition, based in Scorched Earth Labs’ AI State Tree Protocol, can support this approach through an inspectable record of how agent state evolves.

The aim: greater autonomy with demonstrable control and accountability.
Connect what the agent knows, what it intends, what it may do, and what it actually does.
The Moral Imperative of Artificial Intelligence
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The Moral Imperative of Artificial Intelligence

Governance, Trust, and Long-Term Institutional Credibility in the Age of Algorithmic Decision-Making.

Eric Lapin & Brian Stucky

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Published Perspective · June 10, 2025

What If Regulation Made AI Better?

Rethinking the Innovation Myth

Brian Stucky · Cognitive World

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