AI
Artificial intelligence is going to be part of everything from here on — the only question in play is who holds the keys. These pages are the running index of Mike's articles and guides on what personal AI assistants actually are, what they see, and how to build one you control instead of renting a sealed one you don't.
Links and legislation last checked October 8, 2026. Tips and corrections: [email protected]
Everything AI, in three pieces
Your Agent, Their Terms
Meta's new personal agent, the guard agent that decides what it shows you, and the full walkthrough for building your own assistant instead — including the subscriber-gated parts worth paying for.
Read on Substack →Who Watches the Sentinel?
The organizations doing AI oversight work, the laws that already exist in California and Colorado, the federal bills in flight, and the trackers to watch it yourself. With the open public-comment windows, which are time-limited. Updated as things change — currently through October 8, 2026.
Open the oversight index →Build Your Own Personal AI Assistant
What these assistants actually are — five parts and who can read each one — plus what the setup costs in hours and dollars, honestly told. The complete Part A and Part B prompts go out by email from that page. Written down and dated so you know which era of a fast-moving landscape you're looking at.
Open the walkthrough →New AI dispatches and guides land here as they're published — this hub is the standing index, so nothing in this section gets orphaned without a link back.
What you'll find across them
Every AI deployed at our scale owes the same floor: public training-data disclosure, published guardrails and who wrote them, a way to report it when it goes wrong, and a real person who reads the reports. The companion page indexes the organizations holding that line and the law that already exists — the full index →
AI law in America is being written state by state, with Congress mostly still talking. The companion page carries the flagship bills with official text, live federal and state trackers, and the open public-comment windows where an individual can actually weigh in. One is open right now — see what's live →
The same convenience the big platforms sell, except the agent lives on your machine, the brain is whichever provider you point it at, and the memory stays in the house. Five parts, an honest weekend of setup, and the two questions to ask about any assistant you use — start the walkthrough →