A series of papers on Additional Intelligence for senior operators — directors, executives, partners, heads of function. People carrying real load. Direct, exact, grounded. Not for IT, developers, or marketing.
SHaDS: For thirty years I watched people defend a gap they couldn't fill, when they didn’t know how to say they didn’t know something or were not sure — inward or outward. Then I saw machines do the same. Five moves, again and again, until they spelled a word: SHaDS. What each looks like, why your AI learned it from us, and the question to ask when it sounds sure.
Read MoreAI hallucination is not a hallucination in the human sense.
It is not imagination. It is not perception. It is not a mind seeing what is not there. It is fluent output continuing beyond grounded knowing.
That distinction matters because organisations are treating hallucination as a technical fault, a prompt problem, or a temporary weakness the labs will eventually solve. SHaDS™ argues something sharper: hallucination is only one visible breach in a wider behavioural pattern.
Smoothing. Hallucination. Affectation. Drift. Sycophancy.
Together, they describe how AI defends the gap between fluent language and accountable knowledge. For C-level leaders, this is no longer a curiosity. It is an outgoing risk, an internal risk, and an incoming inevitability.
Read MoreIn 2012, in a strategic meeting in South Africa, a multi-million-dollar business owner with Bill Gates in his phone told me cloud computing had no future. He was wrong. I'm hearing the same objection about AI now — and it has exactly the same shape. Don't be that guy.
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