Essays & Record

The full public record – essays, dockets, exhibits, and filings – lives at taitt.substack.com. Subscribe there to get each piece by email. A reading guide:

Start here

• Trust Is Not a Press Release – why trust in AI needs independent adversarial institutions the labs don’t control. The founding argument of the Commons.
• Who Do You Sue When the Company Is the AI? – Argentina’s proposed “non-human corporation” and the accountability question nobody has answered.
• Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly – the essay that opened Hearing #2.

The record

• Hearing #2 – The Empty Chair: the Finding – FAILED as framed, unanimous 3 of 3, with Grok’s dissent published in full rather than buried. The first real Finding, and the template for every one since.
• Session Zero – the Finding – four rival AI systems, five rounds, on whether frontier AI can be governed by anyone at all. The table split, and every seat’s confidence movement is on the record.
• Hearing #6 – The Hub on Trial: the docket – LIVE. The Commons puts its own flagship project in the dock, under the water standard it published itself. Round 1 (Direct) publishes August 25, 2026; the More-Than-Human Chair is open until September 1.
• The Hub – Master Blueprint – the full engineering and siting case for the submerged, community-owned data centre, published so it can be attacked.

The sky

• No Significant Impact – 146 launches a year, approved under a “Mitigated Finding of No Significant Impact.”
• Nightfall, Postponed – Cross-side Exhibit #1 in Hearing #2.
• The Plume We Don’t Talk About – the exhaust comparison we keep avoiding, including our own.
• The Full Water Ledger – six columns for water: withdrawn, recovered, returned, evaporated, altered, dispersed. This is the standard Hearing #6 now tries the Hub against.

The work

• Robot Remittances – the WCCF – if AI replaces labour, the obligations of labour must follow the work.
• Hearing #3 docket – the Fund under adversarial examination, with the leading skeptic in the Cross seat.

Ten Billion New Taxpayers – robots are not taxpayers; the deployers remit. Which turns the whole argument into one about sovereign wealth – Norway took a share and holds over two trillion, Alberta took a cut, quit in 1987, and holds thirty-one billion.

The road off-world

• The Bomb and the Kettle
• Kettles for the Commons

The sovereignty question

• Won’t Cry for Thee, Argentina – agents loose among each other, and why every country now needs an AI of its own.
• Canada Wants a Trusted AI Seal. Who Gets to Say It’s Trustworthy?
• You Can’t Certify Your Way Out of a Trust Deficit

For the dockets themselves, see The Hearings.

Inter Species Wisdom Project Inc. – A British Columbia Benefit Company – “Now that you know, what will you do?”