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6 min read

The receipt problem with AI

Every other transaction in your life gives you a receipt. When an AI denies your claim, blocks your transaction, or recommends your treatment, what do you get? A plain-language explainer of the gap, with real cases and what a fix looks like.

ExplainerAI accountability
8 min read

Eight days before the WHO. AqtaBio's first prospective Ebola signal, and what it does and doesn't prove.

On 9 May 2026 the inaugural entry in our append-only public ledger listed all five top Ebola tiles in the Congo Basin biome. Eight days later the WHO declared a PHEIC for Bundibugyo Ebola in DR Congo and Uganda. Biome-correct; the country was rank 4, not rank 1. Commit #1, not #100. First prospective signal. The lead is real, the caveats matter, the verification is non-custodial.

AqtaBioPre-etiologic surveillance
11 min read

How AqtaCore signs attestation receipts: Ed25519, canonical JSON, and zero-trust verification

A walk through the cryptography behind every AqtaCore enforcement decision: Ed25519 signing, the canonical-JSON rule that keeps Python and TypeScript verifiers byte-identical, and how an auditor verifies a receipt in five lines without ever calling our servers.

AqtaCoreEd25519
8 min read

Who's accountable when healthcare AI makes a mistake?

Ireland's Medical Council says doctors remain responsible for AI decisions. But how can they be confident in tools they don't fully understand?

HealthcareMedical AI
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The human supply chain behind AI

Three AI coding assistants, same task. All three imported deprecated libraries. One pulled a known RCE flaw. None flagged it. The model is the easy part.

Supply ChainEthics

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