Don Norbeck | Dark AI Defense
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AI governance advisor, policy analyst, and infrastructure veteran. Founder of Dark AI Defense. Writing on agentic systems, AI behavioral contracts, and the policy frameworks the industry is not building fast enough.
America is about to spend trillions on data centers powered by a grid held together with duct tape. We've done this before. Rural electric. The interstate. The internet. The Intergrid is next. darkaidefense.com
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AI is moving faster than the guardrails. Somebody has to say the quiet part out loud. Knowledge is no longer scarce. Intelligence is ambient. And most organizations are still making AI decisions based...
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WH: Please show us your models? AI Co: No. WH: Pretty please? AI Co: No. WH: Pretty please with sugar on top? AI Co: ad this: "nothing in this order authorizes a mandatory licensing, preclearance, or permitting requirement." Still no. darkaidefense.com/show-us-your-models-pretty-please
Show us your models, Pretty Please - Defense Against Dark AI
Dark AI Defense | Policy Response | June 2, 2026 The White House dropped a new executive order today on AI innovation and security. It has a good title. It has 30-day deadlines. It has the word “cyber...
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The White House dropped an AI executive order today. 30-day deadlines. A cybersecurity clearinghouse. An ill-defined "covered frontier model" designation. What it does not have: any requirement for developers to actually participate in any of it. darkaidefense.com/show-us-your...
Show us your models, Pretty Please - Defense Against Dark AI
Dark AI Defense | Policy Response | June 2, 2026 The White House dropped a new executive order today on AI innovation and security. It has a good title. It has 30-day deadlines. It has the word “cyber...
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Jessica Foster has a million Instagram followers and a talent for showing up at every major geopolitical event of the last four months. She's also not real. AI Crapfishing is manufacturing the need, then selling the fix. darkaidefense.com/ai-crapfishi...
AI Crapfishing: Manufacturing the Need, Selling the Fix - Defense Against Dark AI
The Con Everyone Saw But (Those Caught Up In It) Didn’t See Coming Jessica Foster has a million Instagram followers, a busy social calendar with world leaders, and a talent for showing up at every maj...
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Bravo to @anushreec and @sophiajwang for building Mapping AI, an open crowdsourced map of everyone shaping U.S. AI governance. Joined the contributor community today. Your perspective belongs on this map. mapping-ai.org
We didn't build the interstate system because we needed roads. We built it because we understood national infrastructure as strategy. AI's demands are forcing the same question. My latest on what the intergrid opportunity actually looks like. darkaidefense.com/weve-got-the...
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Dark AI Defense | Policy Analysis | June 2026 We’ve Got the Power (But It’s Getting Kinda Hectic) America’s Fourth Public Infrastructure Moment America’s Fourth Infrastructure Moment The American elec...
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