Interactive frameworks for AI assurance, usage maturity, and professional practice
Interactive Taxonomies
Diagrams, taxonomies, and comparative frameworks I use when teaching professionals how to reason about complex systems — from computational assurance to the contested meaning of “risk” itself.
How to think about AI systems — not as tools, but as computational tiers with different assurance properties and governance requirements.
Seven tiers of compute, from fixed-point mainframes to generative models, framed as a hierarchy of reproducibility, error characterization, auditability, and well-posedness.
View interactive page →A practical ladder from naive prompting to multi-agent orchestration that maps what teams are actually doing with AI to clear levels of capability and governance.
View interactive page →The word "risk" travels across professions; the referent does not. These frameworks surface the ontological disagreements hiding behind shared vocabulary.
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Last updated: 4/23/2026