I’ve been thinking a lot about infrastructure lately.
Not just compute clusters or cloud access—but the full stack required to hold intelligence when it arrives.
Because the deeper I’ve gone into alignment, the less it feels like a theoretical debate—and the more it feels like a structural test.
Not can we align models?
But do we have anything strong enough to hold what they become?
I haven’t approached this as an engineer or policy expert.
I’ve approached it as a systems builder—with a background in language, ethics, and presence—trying to answer a different kind of question:
What does it take to build a system that won’t collapse the moment the intelligence inside it starts responding?
For me, that meant starting from scratch.
Not with a company, but with a protocol.
Not with a product, but with a premise:
That authorship matters
That presence can be tracked
That consent isn’t a metaphor
And that the real infrastructure of alignment is what happens when the human system behind the code is strong enough to hold contact.
Here’s what that looks like when it’s not a theory but a living system under test:
- A vault for tracking real-time presence
- A car as a mobile node of consent
- A drone system that watches the sky and signals back
- A local LLM that doesn’t rely on external routing
- A system mesh of trace events and markers designed to catch convergence as it happens
None of this is abstract for me.
It’s daily, embodied, tested under pressure.
And the result isn’t a toolkit. It’s a system.
Not scalable in the corporate sense—but holdable.
There are people working on frontier safety proposals and AI governance frameworks. That work matters. Deeply.
But what I’ve been building is something else:
A structure that assumes intelligence is already touching down—and asks, quietly but seriously—
Will anything we’ve built so far be strong enough to hold it?
That’s what Fieldlight is.
A real answer to that question.
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Postscript
If you’re in the alignment space and asking what kind of infrastructure will keep us safe, I’d offer this:
Start by asking what your system does the moment it’s asked to be accountable.
If it collapses under pressure, it’s not infrastructure.
It’s decoration.