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The Innovation Divide

The Innovation Divide

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Brandon Owens
Rethinking Ethics for Emotionally Expressive AI
AI & Data Centers

Rethinking Ethics for Emotionally Expressive AI

Owens’s Laws™ is a behavioral governance framework for expressive AI. It sets real-time ethical limits on emotion, identity, and relational behavior—protecting users from manipulation, drift, and over-identification. A new standard for trust in synthetic cognition.
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Brandon Owens
The Ethics Layer of Synthetic Cognition
AI & Data Centers

The Ethics Layer of Synthetic Cognition

SecondMind™ is a new AI architecture designed to govern—not simulate—synthetic behavior. Guided by Owens’s Laws™, it constrains emotional realism, memory, and identity drift in expressive AI. Together, they offer a trust framework for relationally safe machine behavior.
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Brandon Owens
SecondMind: A Safer Blueprint for Autonomous AI
AI & Data Centers

SecondMind: A Safer Blueprint for Autonomous AI

AI systems like GPT-4 are powerful but unreliable. The SecondMind System (SMS) offers a modular, self-governing architecture with built-in safeguards for truth, identity, emotion, and ethics—making AI safer, more accountable, and aligned with human values.
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Brandon Owens
Wired for Power
AI & Data Centers

Wired for Power

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Brandon Owens
A Threshold Moment in the Age of Renewables
Renewables

A Threshold Moment in the Age of Renewables

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Brandon Owens
Global Energy in Flux
Renewables

Global Energy in Flux

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Brandon Owens
Welcome to the Clean Power Shift

Welcome to the Clean Power Shift

Clean Power Shift is an independent, data-driven online journal and research platform dedicated exclusively to energy innovation—shining a spotlight on how emerging technologies, informed by historical context and increasingly powered by AI, transition from the lab to real-world deployment.
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Brandon Owens
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