Rated AAA by the Issuer
What “open source” in artificial intelligence has in common with a credit rating, and what the base rates say happens next.
Working Papers · NPSI-WP-NNN
Working Papers
Long-form, sourced, version-numbered documents intended for senior policy, fiduciary and academic readers.
9 working papers published since May 2026, listed by publication date, newest first. Each is version-numbered and placed under public version control; errata are published as patch versions. Named commentary on any paper is welcomed at Commentary.
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The numbering is the author’s: No. 6 and No. 8 were reserved and never released, so the archive carries intentional gaps. Nothing has been withdrawn; the number register lists every serial ever assigned, and the git history is the audit trail.
Rated AAA by the Issuer
What “open source” in artificial intelligence has in common with a credit rating, and what the base rates say happens next.
The Counterparty Problem
What a $15 billion Memorandum of Understanding is actually worth when the counterparty’s charter expires in five months.
Fair Use for We, IP Theft for Thee
Nobody agrees what “open source” means in artificial intelligence. Washington is now writing policy inside that vacuum.
Dazzle 2.0
Russia's “zebra” trucks and the contest between a can of paint and a machine that thinks it can see.
A Canada–Korea Pacific Defence-Industrial Corridor
Submarine procurement, industrial offsets, and the third rail of middle-power sovereignty.
A Canada–United States Energy and Compute Compact
Cooperative leverage in the AI-era continental grid.
The Bilateral Foundation
A thirty-year Canada–Korea sovereign bond as the architecture of middle-power independence.