Energy & Utilities
When Feedback Misses Its Window
The Iberian blackout of April 2025 had a closed-loop system with feedback, protection, and reactive power reserves. The correction mechanism existed and sat unused while voltage climbed toward collapse. The loop existed. It didn't govern.
22 July, 2026
Autonomous Vehicles
Supervision Can't Be Bolted On
Most people think an autonomous system is safe as long as someone can always intervene. The Cruise robotaxi incident shows why that assumption fails - and what proactive supervision actually looks like when reactive supervision isn't enough.
21 July, 2026
AI Agents & Digital Workers
What a Real AI Supervisor Actually Requires
AI agents move in discrete steps, and the question isn't how fast you catch a problem - it's how many unsupervised steps an agent takes before anyone is in a position to catch anything. Control engineering solved this in 1987.
15 July, 2026
AI Agents & Digital Workers
Managed Autonomy, Not Autonomous AI
Companies solved the AI agent governance problem for humans decades ago - it's called Privileged Access Management. Most AI agents were never enrolled in it, and where the analogy breaks is the actually interesting part.
15 July, 2026
AI Agents & Digital Workers
Semi-Autonomous AI
When AI agents act without being asked, the question stops being whether they made a good decision. It becomes whether anyone can even say which piece of software made it - and what you can actually do about it.
13 July, 2026
AI Agents & Digital Workers
Open-Loop, Closed-Loop, and the Line Between Hoping and Governing
A system that fires an instruction and hopes is not the same as one that watches itself and corrects. Most of what's being called AI governance right now is the first one, wearing the second one's badge.
13 July, 2026
AI Agents & Digital Workers
The Systems We Trust Are Never Fully Autonomous
Autonomy plus control isn't a compromise. It's the answer to AI anxiety. Every technology humans have ever trusted with something that mattered got trusted because a control layer was built alongside it.
06 July, 2026