The American public does not need more AI regulation; it needs AI infrastructure.

This episode walks through the AI Provider Plurality Congressional Package and the Verified AI Inference Standards Act (VAISA), submitted to the 119th Congress in February 2026. The proposal treats AI the way the country has historically treated aviation, highways, and telecommunications: government builds the public infrastructure that ensures safety and accountability, and private companies build the platforms that operate on top of it.

What the episode covers:

GOPEL, the non-cognitive Governance Orchestrator Policy Enforcement Layer that performs seven deterministic operations without thinking, and why a pipeline that cannot think is the only governance layer that cannot be manipulated by the AI it governs.

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