Governance
Some Issues do not sort neatly into “here” or “abroad.” They are questions of how we govern ourselves, and the policies under which, I think, government should conduct its operations. I’ve put them here to seek your feedback, as on all Issues, and to solicit your ideas for additional ideas / concepts which haven’t occurred to me, yet.
Let Federal Workers Cut Red Tape!
Replacing a century-old, process-only bureaucratic model with the outcome-based Mission Command doctrine the military built after Vietnam, while keeping civil servants' jobs and pay secure by law.
Read More & Share Your ThoughtsAI: Learning to Manage a Novel, Useful Tool
A federally coordinated research effort -- NIST, NASA, DARPA, and the NTSB, with industry standards bodies -- to characterize and make applicability recommendations for AI, the way military and vehicle-safety standards already work.
Read More & Share Your ThoughtsAI Disinformation: Securing the Instruments of Truth
The real disinformation threat is not the fakes we can see; it is the corruption of the AI systems we rely on to tell real from fake. Training data provenance requirements, adversarial red-teaming, and a public model-integrity registry.
Read More & Share Your ThoughtsNAFTA: Good for No Worker
NAFTA created hard, enforceable law for corporate investors and toothless side agreements for workers and the environment. The outcomes followed from the structure. Trade agreements are instruments: the question is who sits at the table when they are written.
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