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- EssayThe Missing Chapter of AI Safety
A verbatim term search of the five documents that govern frontier AI—OpenAI's Model Spec, Anthropic's Constitution, DeepMind's Frontier Safety Framework, Meta's Frontier AI Framework, and the EU AI Act—returns zero hits for watershed, aquifer, groundwater, wetland, habitat, emissions, conservation of mass, and conservation of energy. Argues that this is not an oversight but an unopened category, and sketches what an environmentally grounded system would commit to: disclosure rather than refusal, hard constraints drawn only from conservation laws, grounding in live measurement rather than recollection, and an auditable log.
- EssayNature-Aligned AI
Argues that the environmental risk of artificial intelligence has been misidentified: data center electricity and water are a linear, bounded thermodynamic cost, while the unbounded risk is deploying capable optimizers into the physical economy with no grounding in biophysical law. Proposes replacing preference-based alignment with physical grounding—the Bond-Bit Asymmetry, Large Nature Models trained on 3.8 billion years of ecological data, and a mandatory Environmental Safety Mode evaluated against Earth-system models at inference time.
- EssayEnvironmental Safety Mode: The Proxy Stack, the Interlock, and What Physical Grounding Can and Cannot Do
The technical companion to 'The Daylight.' Establishes, with sources and uncertainty bands, the energy throughput of the sectors AI is acquiring allocation authority over; gives a formal treatment of environmental regulation as a layered proxy stack and works it against the measured reward-hacking literature; separates the is-gap from the ought-gap using three independent results (the biosphere specifies no preferred state, entropy is observer-relative, and no system grounds its own objective from inside); derives the thermodynamic feasibility of environmental gating with the three leverage quantities kept strictly apart; and specifies Environmental Safety Mode L0–L5 with requirements, costs, limits, and how an adversary defeats each level.
- EssaySmall and Everywhere
Compression and redundancy look like opposite instructions—shrink the message, or copy it—but they act on different things: compression finds the smallest true description, redundancy writes that description in many independent places. Nature uses both to make a fact knowable and incorruptible at once, which gives a concrete rule for protecting the living world: know it small, keep it everywhere—the first makes truth cheap, the second makes lying expensive.