AI Agents Agentic AI MCP Needs a Type System, Part 1: Six Incidents That Expose the Protocol's Blind Spot Your AI agents are only as safe as the contracts they honor—and right now, MCP doesn't have any. By John F. Holliday • 6 min read
Agentic AI 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. By John F. Holliday • 8 min read
Stylized Periodic Table in Digital Space Agentic AI Extending the AI Periodic Table: Two Missing Elements for the Semantic AI Era Just as you wouldn't build a house without blueprints, you shouldn't build AI guardrails without a DSL that precisely defines acceptable behavior. By John F. Holliday • 8 min read
The dynamic interplay between manifest order and latent potential Machine Intelligence 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. By John F. Holliday • 7 min read
An Ever-Present Reservoir of Infinite Possibilities Agentic AI Everything Everywhere All at Once: How Transformers Changed the Way Machines Understand Language In 2017, Google researchers proposed throwing out sequential language processing entirely. Their Transformer architecture could see everything, everywhere, all at once—and it changed AI forever. By John F. Holliday • 8 min read
Generative AI: Revolutionizing Information Governance Information Governance 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 By John F. Holliday • 12 min read
A humanoid robot hand carefully drawing lines Agentic AI 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. By John F. Holliday • 3 min read
A crystalline lattice structure at the exact moment of phase transition Agentic AI 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. By John F. Holliday • 6 min read
Oversight Immigration Enforcement Tracking Dashboard Data Visualization I Built a Better Immigration Enforcement Tracking Dashboard (And You Can Help) An interactive visualization layer on top of the Committee's data. Same verified incidents, same sources, same commitment to factual accuracy—but now you can actually explore it. By John F. Holliday • 2 min read
Complex AI Agent Constrained by Precise Language Agentic AI Building Semantic AI Agents with Custom DSLs The Problem: Lost in Translation Every interaction with an AI agent involves translation—from human intent to machine action. Today, most AI systems attempt this translation in one giant leap, interpreting natural language directly into system operations. It's like playing telephone tag with your entire business logic. Consider By John F. Holliday • 4 min read
AI Governance Information Governance Why AI Prompts Are Not Official Records: A Formal Logic Analysis for Compliance Professionals The explosive adoption of AI tools across enterprises has created an urgent compliance question that keeps information governance professionals awake at night: When employees interact with AI systems, do their prompts constitute official records? By John F. Holliday • 9 min read
The Unified Field of Pure Creative Intelligence Information Architecture Information Architecture, Consciousness, and the Unified Field When we practice information architecture, we participate in the same ordering principle that governs the cosmos from quarks to galaxies. By John F. Holliday • 5 min read
