Twenty-five years inside the rooms where accountability wasn't optional.
Before AI governance, the work was regulated finance, large-scale security, logistics, and technology, more than two decades inside organizations where someone always had to own the call. That is the discipline The Wrong Default applies to AI: not hype, not fear, a straight account of who is deciding and who is left holding the cost when nobody claims it.
A default is just governance without a named author. The Wrong Default is where that argument gets made every week, in public, traced through real cases rather than abstractions.
The same question, from a few directions.
Fellowship Intelligence
The AI strategy, governance, and control layer advisory I founded, for organizations where a wrong AI-influenced call carries real weight. I help install the ownership, controls, and escalation paths that keep a named person accountable, not a tool.
fellowshipintelligence.com →Decided in Silence & Answerable
Two forthcoming books, one argument pointed at two audiences: the citizen, parent, teacher, and leader in one; the operator and professional in the other. Both published by Fellowship Intelligence under its imprint The Wrong Default.
Decided in Silence → Answerable →Still in Charge, and the rest of it
I also run Still in Charge, a sponsor-funded initiative helping schools teach students to use AI without handing over their judgment, and founded Always Questioning, a creators collaborative. For the full picture across all of it, see my author site.
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