Notes

Occasional writing from e52 on intelligent systems and other topics we are working through.

Notes are working documents: briefings, position notes, and field observations. They are revised as the landscape moves.

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Data Controls for AI Systems

No training, zero data retention, and the copies in between: what actually happens to your data at every step of an AI system, who runs the model, and how to match the controls to the sensitivity of the data.

Briefing · August 2026

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