About, and the standards we publish under.

What this is

Praxen Policy is the policy publication of Praxen. Chris Dukes, founder of Praxen Development & Engineering, LLC, writes it. It takes positions: for AI policy built on evidence, against doomerism, and against claims that fall apart when you open their sources. That makes it advocacy, and it says so. In exchange it owes you a record you can check.

Editorial standards

1. Every factual claim links to a source. Where a primary source exists (the statute, the docket entry, the dataset, the paper), the link goes there and not to someone’s account of it. Each source shows the date it was last opened and checked. If a claim rests on secondary reporting, the piece says so.
2. A source the author has not opened does not appear. A claim that cannot be sourced is cut, or it is labelled as the author’s judgment.
3. Quotations are exact, short and in context, with a link to where the words were said.
4. The other side goes first. Before a piece answers a view, it states that view the way its best advocates would.
5. Evidence and opinion are written so you can tell them apart. You can then reject the conclusion without doubting the record.
6. A claim that something has not happened carries a date. Those claims go stale fastest, so re-check one before relying on it.
7. Corrections are dated and public. A published claim is never edited silently. The procedure is below.

Disclosures

Commercial interest

Praxen Development & Engineering, LLC builds and sells AI systems, so it has a commercial interest in how AI is regulated. Read this piece with that in mind. This notice appears on every piece.

AI assistance

AI systems are used here for research, drafting and checking, under the author’s direction. Each piece states what assistance it had and how the result was verified. The author is responsible for every published sentence. Whatever produced a first draft, a person checks each claim against its source before the piece ships.

Not legal advice

Pieces that discuss law are analysis. They create no attorney–client relationship and are no substitute for counsel.

Corrections

If a piece is wrong, the text is fixed. A dated note saying what changed is added to the piece and to the corrections log, and the piece’s “updated” date moves with it. A corrected PDF is issued under a new version number, and the old file is left in place. Clarifications that change no fact are not logged as corrections.

To report an error, write to chris@cld-dev.io with the sentence and the source that contradicts it.

Reuse and citation

Unless a piece says otherwise it is licensed CC BY-NC 4.0. You may reproduce and adapt it for non-commercial purposes, with attribution. Every piece ends with a suggested citation, and whitepapers carry a versioned PDF for citing by page.