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The title of the original Transformer paper was elegant marketing. It was also philosophically careless. Attention is a mechanism, and mechanisms don't yield meaning. You can't get semantics from syntax alone, no matter how much compute you throw at the problem.
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Attention is Not All We Need: The Case for Meaning By Design
The title of the original Transformer paper was elegant marketing. It was also philosophically careless. Attention is a mechanism, and mechanisms don't yield meaning. You can't get semantics from syntax alone, no matter how much compute you throw at the problem.
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Deontic Logic for Agent Permissions: A Formal Framework for AI Agent Governance
The fundamental question of what agents are permitted to do remains governed by ad-hoc JSON schemas and vibes-based access control. Wesley Hohfeld's decomposition of rights into eight fundamental relations—and deontic logic's formal operators—provide exactly the rigor AI agent governance needs.
Teaching AI Agents to Color Inside the Lines
The challenge isn't that AI is stupid—it's that AI is like an overconfident intern who read the handbook once. The solution? Give AI a menu of approved actions instead of hoping it figures out your business. Structured semantic AI agents deliver predictability, compliance, and trust at scale.Latest Articles
Deontic Logic for Agent Permissions: A Formal Framework for AI Agent Governance
The fundamental question of what agents are permitted to do remains governed by ad-hoc JSON schemas and vibes-based access control. Wesley Hohfeld's decomposition of rights into eight fundamental relations—and deontic logic's formal operators—provide exactly the rigor AI agent governance needs.
Attention is Not All We Need: The Case for Meaning By Design
The title of the original Transformer paper was elegant marketing. It was also philosophically careless. Attention is a mechanism, and mechanisms don't yield meaning. You can't get semantics from syntax alone, no matter how much compute you throw at the problem.
Generative AI and Information Governance: A Practitioner's Guide
The information governance landscape is undergoing its most significant transformation since the advent of cloud computing. Generative AI—the same technology powering tools like ChatGPT and Claude—is rapidly moving from novelty to necessity in how organizations manage, classify, and protect their data assets. For those of us who have
Teaching AI Agents to Color Inside the Lines
The challenge isn't that AI is stupid—it's that AI is like an overconfident intern who read the handbook once. The solution? Give AI a menu of approved actions instead of hoping it figures out your business. Structured semantic AI agents deliver predictability, compliance, and trust at scale.
Phase Transitions in AI: Context Windows and the Emergence of Something Like Awareness
Context window capacity is the order parameter. Below a critical threshold, you get pattern completion. Above it, something else emerges: coherent reasoning, consistent perspective, the ability to reference and refine. Not consciousness. But not nothing either.