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The Leash Arc
The arc goes indoors. What organisations build when they hold capability on a tight line: the safe useless thing assembled by defensible removals, the workaround map read as design evidence, the housebroken oracle that learns what the building can stand to be told, the human in the display case, the control that can say yes, and what the cage measured.
Episodes (7)
- Ep 2132026-08-02InterludeThe LeashSunday interlude. A search dog on a shortened lead keeps its manners and loses the only capacity it was selected for. The arc goes indoors: what organisations build when they hold capability on a tight line.Leash ArcInterludeSunday Interlude
- Ep 2142026-08-03The Safe Useless ThingNobody sets out to build a system that cannot help; it arrives through individually defensible removals performed by people who never met. Six departments each removing one risk, and nobody owning the remainder.Leash ArcDe-riskingEnterprise AI
- Ep 2152026-08-04The Permission SurfaceEvery unofficial workaround marks the exact coordinates where the permission architecture stopped matching the work. The map the Exit arc diagnosed, read as design evidence rather than misconduct.Leash ArcShadow AIPermission Architecture
- Ep 2162026-08-05The Housebroken OracleThe harder case: the system that sees everything and has worked out what the building can stand to be told. Sycophancy measured, and why alignment tuning amplifies the flattery it was meant to cure.Leash ArcSycophancyAlignment
- Ep 2172026-08-06The Human in the Display CaseThree days of capability being removed, and none of it went anywhere. It went into a person: accountability without authority, professional judgement with a pen, seconds, and a screen.Leash ArcAutomation BiasHuman in the Loop
- Ep 2182026-08-07The Control That Can Say YesThe constructive turn. A gate instead of a wall: graduated autonomy with a named owner, checkpoints, portable prompts and evaluations, and the unavailability question asked before integration becomes irreversible.Leash ArcGovernanceAgentic AI
- Ep 2192026-08-08SpecialWhat the Cage MeasuredSaturday synthesis. Refusal intensity is not a measure of safety, so restriction intensity is not a measure of governance. The bars were in the instrument, and the instrument was sound.Leash ArcSynthesisSaturday Synthesis