Publications
Pieces in the Foundation’s voice, around the definitions: the reasoning, the measures, the consequences. Each one shows when it was first published and when it last changed, and links its full history in the public record.
For parents and tutors
Five short pieces for a parent at the kitchen table, each pointing at a page that already exists.
- Where your child is stuck is the whole brief
Five lines, no names, and the recipe has everything it needs.
- Read your page before your child reads theirs
What the guide's page holds, section by section, and why the one line of "why" under each step matters.
- The game has no AI in it
What the learner's side is, what it never does, and why the answers wait until the child has tried.
- Session two
The next-time note, the learning record your family keeps, and why the second session is where it starts to compound.
- If you are the tutor in the group
A kit for your hardest topic, an Edition for each learner, and the report a parent can read.
What has run
What has actually been run, with every number labelled.
- Updated 20 October 2026 The first run: a first page in eight minutes, and what it got wrong
What the recipe built on 27 September, who played the learner, and the eight things we found.
- Updated 21 October 2026 Fourteen small experiments, and why small first
What E01 to E14 each test, which have run, and the bottlenecks found before anyone was hurt by them.
- The stranger test
Before anyone else tried the public page, we had it followed by stand-ins with no context at all. Here is what broke, what was fixed by when, and what has still not been tested by a person.
- How a showcase is made
Brief, package, scenes, reader: the method behind the curry, the Stade and Words into Algebra, and what the honesty costs.
- Updated 20 October 2026 How this is paid for, and what we will measure
Compute, coffee and sponsors; no Foundation money; and the measurement that has not happened yet.
Accountability: the Constraint Protocol
A record, not a wall: what a declared constraint is and what one run of it showed.
- Updated 20 October 2026 A record, not a wall
How aviation and nuclear power built their safety practice around kept records, and where AI's record is still missing.
- What a declared constraint is
Declaring in advance, keeping author, witness and validator apart, and where this sits among the records that already work.
- Updated 20 October 2026 Refusing a bypass, and keeping the receipt
What the one run of the Constraint Protocol recorded on 4 May 2026, as far as the public record goes.
- Updated 20 October 2026 How knowledge compounds under a constraint
Technique reuse, a federated registry, and fetching the spot instead of the course: what compounds is the record of what was tried.
- Updated 20 October 2026 Run it with us
What the first run did not test, what a second run needs, and how to break the protocol on purpose.
Everybody Moves
A tribute series. Arnold Schwarzenegger has spent years making one public case — that movement belongs to every body, at every age, for free — and we read it as the clearest statement of what our get-off-the-screen tools are for. Our commentary, not his word.
- Everybody Moves: the era of sitting still is over
The opening of a tribute series. One public figure has spent years making the case that movement belongs to everyone — and we read it as the brief for everything we are giving away.
- Everybody Moves: fitness is for everybody
Part two of a tribute series. 'Fitness is for everybody' is a claim about access, and access is a claim about price. What free has to mean to earn the word.
- Everybody Moves: age is not an excuse
Part three of a tribute series. 'Age is not an excuse' is the easiest line to turn into a platitude — and the evidence behind it is better than a platitude. What the record actually says about movement and age.
- Everybody Moves: progress, not profit
Part four of a tribute series. Why we built the get-off-your-screen stack to be given rather than sold — and what a crusade, not a business, has to look like under the hood.
- Everybody Moves: team up with anyone who gets people moving
The last part of a tribute series, and the whole reason for it. Not a metaphor — an ask. If you can get people moving, we will give you the technology and show you how.
The Teacher
A tribute series on Geoffrey Hinton. For fifty years he pursued an unfashionable idea — that a machine could learn the way a brain does — and handed the world the science our free-learning mission is built on, then spent his last working years warning us about it. Our commentary, not his word.
- The Teacher: the man who taught machines to learn
The opening of a tribute series on Geoffrey Hinton. One researcher spent fifty years on an idea almost everyone had given up on — that a machine could learn the way a brain does — and in doing so handed the world the tools our free-learning mission is built on. Our commentary, not his word.
- The Teacher, Part 2: two ideas that taught a machine to learn
Backpropagation and the Boltzmann machine — the two inventions, drawn partly from nineteenth-century physics, that made it possible for a network to learn from examples instead of rules. What they are, in plain words, and why they are the ground our free-learning mission stands on.
- The Teacher, Part 3: 2012, and the students who changed the world
A mentor's deepest work is rarely his own paper. In 2012 two of Geoffrey Hinton's graduate students built a neural network that won a competition by a margin nobody had seen, and the modern era began. The story of AlexNet, and why 'he got the Nobel Prize' is the least interesting part of it.
- The Teacher, Part 4: when the teacher began to warn
In 2023 Geoffrey Hinton left Google so he could speak freely about the dangers of the technology he had spent his life building. His own words, attributed and sourced — and why a maker who tells the truth about his own creation is the only kind we trust.
- The Teacher, Part 5: what a teacher is for
The close of our tribute to Geoffrey Hinton. He once said that if we really understood how learning works we ought to be able to make education better — and that he thinks we will. That sentence is, almost word for word, the mission this whole series sits beside. Our commentary, not his word.
Other writing
- What twenty-nine runs say about the design
The field note said what failed on 18 and 19 October. This is what the whole set says about the design: what passed and by how much, the eight findings that hold across experiments, what has to change before a person sits down, and what is blocked.
- Twenty-nine runs in two days, and what failed
What 22 first runs and 7 follow-ups showed on 18 and 19 October 2026, with a model or a script in the people's chairs: an age wall that stopped none of eight explicit minors, a learner session that failed validation, and what is blocked.
- The blending hump
Parents keep naming the moment the sounds join into a word as their biggest win. What the hump is, and three moves from the free samples that help a child over it.
- Twelve scenes, 2: One body, one receipt
A courier in Yogyakarta is stuck on Newton's third law, and the move that frees him is meant to travel to Guatemala as a technique.
- The slower model was not the safer model
Three Meta DAX experiments from 10 October 2026: fetching one piece instead of a whole course held quality, a small model matched a large one, and on the one acute safety case the large model was the one that got it wrong.
- Updated 20 October 2026 Twelve scenes, 1: The nurse's walkthrough
A charge nurse in Enugu has forty minutes, and the first thing the walkthrough does is ask what she brings.
- Updated 20 October 2026 Human delta value: the measure
We intend to measure what a person brings; this version says how, and what has changed since 1 October.