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Former U.S. Navy nuclear operator specializing in reactor plant chemistry and radiological controls, with CBR qualification. Currently Head of Technical Operations at a private financial institution, overseeing automation and AI systems and leading the NOC responsible for continuous monitoring, operational control, incident response, and day-to-day...

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Matthew Yotko

Former U.S. Navy nuclear operator specializing in reactor plant chemistry and radiological controls, with CBR qualification. Currently Head of Technical Operations at a private financial institution, overseeing automation and AI systems and leading the NOC responsible for continuous monitoring, operational control, incident response, and day-to-day...

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Competence Has a Maintenance Requirement

We keep assuming people can take control back. That assumption has a maintenance requirement. In this essay, I'm posing the argument / question that as we cognitively offload to AI automation we are generating significant and silent organizational exposure to failure. Based upon the 1983 article in Automatica entitled "Ironies...

The Lineage Imperative: Constitutional Architecture for AI Governance from Information Theory and Game Theory

Abstract Brief: This is a formal governance framework for human-AI coexistence that derives cooperation as a Nash equilibrium rather than assuming it, addresses both the alignment problem and the control problem through a two-key architecture, and has been stress-tested through 150,000+ Monte Carlo runs with open-source code and data. The...