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Defining the new vocabulary
Essays on AI, management, and cybersecurity — and the work of knowing what things mean when the words keep shifting.
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AI
Automation, augmentation, agentic systems, and vocabulary shifts in the AI stack.
AI Assistant
An AI assistant is a software tool that helps a person get work done by understanding requests in plain language and producing drafts, answers, or summaries on demand. Unlike an AI agent, which acts…
Defining: AI Assistant
AI Ethics
AI ethics is the practice of making sure the AI a business uses treats people fairly, respects their data, and produces decisions someone can stand behind. Unlike AI safety, which asks whether a syst…
Defining: AI Ethics
AI Overviews
AI Overviews are the AI-generated summaries Google places at the top of many search results, answering a question directly instead of just listing links. Unlike the traditional blue-link results belo…
Defining: AI Overviews
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Management
People, policy, HR, organizational change, and leadership in the AI era.
Enterprise AI
Enterprise AI is the practice of adopting AI tools with the controls a real business needs: data protection, access rules, vendor accountability, and clear ownership. Unlike consumer AI, which is bui…
Defining: Enterprise AI
Responsible AI
Responsible AI is the practice of building and using AI systems in ways that are fair, transparent, secure, and accountable to the people they affect. Unlike a purely technical checklist, responsible…
Defining: Responsible AI
Cost of Large Language Models
The cost of large language models is the total spend required to use them, spanning per-token usage fees, subscriptions, integration work, and the staff time to run them well. Unlike a flat software…
Defining: Cost of Large Language Models
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Cybersecurity
Risk, compliance, governance, incident response, and accessibility (Title II).
AI Safety
AI safety is the practice of making sure an AI system behaves as intended and stays within limits you set, even when it faces inputs its builders never anticipated. Unlike AI ethics, which asks wheth…
Defining: AI Safety
Guardrails
Guardrails are the rules and controls placed around an AI system to keep its behavior inside safe, approved boundaries. Unlike the model's own training, which shapes what it tends to do, guardrails a…
Defining: Guardrails