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President Trump’s September 22, 2026 address to the United Nations General Assembly The developing sequence itself may be significant: artificial intelligence → generative AI → frontier AI → agentic AI → capability thresholds → superintelligence. Formal standards organizations are standardizing much of the first half of this vocabulary while laboratories are still creating much of the second. There is not yet a mature standards catalog specifically for superintelligence. Instead, a vocabulary and governance architecture is forming around frontier AI, general-purpose AI, capability thresholds, evaluation, scaling and catastrophic risk. ISO/IEC 22989 — Artificial intelligence concepts and terminology ISO/IEC 42001:2023 — Artificial intelligence — Management system ISO/IEC 23894:2023 — Artificial intelligence — Guidance on risk management ISO/IEC 42005:2025 — AI system impact assessment NIST Artificial Intelligence Risk Management Framework (AI RMF) NIST AI 200-2 — TEVV-Athlon Framework for Evaluating AI Systems Responsible Scaling Policy (RSP) “Composition A” 1923 Piet Mondrian “He who does not speak foreign languages — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Daily Beast (August 22, 2025): Dems Ban These Words to Stop Sounding Like ‘Crazy People’ “The Tower of Babel” 1563 / Pieter Bruegel the Elder Here’s a rough breakdown of the top languages on the web: English: 55.4% – Russian: 6.6% – Japanese: 5.4% – Spanish: 5.2% – Chinese: 4.6% One of the most contentious aspects of best practice discovery and promulgation in any domain, and no less so in educational settlements, is an agreed-upon vocabulary and shared understanding. As we explain elsewhere in this history, when a counter-party disagrees with you, he simply switches out the vocabulary — i.e. changes definitions or adds or subtracts from the traditional meanings of things. So we approach this topic several times a year to confirm our bearing on the meaning of things. We observe National Poetry Month in the United States and Canada every year with an inquiry into changes in the (meaning of) definitions at the foundation of best practice literature; frequently the subject of sporty debate among experts writing codes and standards for the built environment of education communities. In the United Kingdom, National Poetry Month is celebrated in October, and it is known as “National Poetry Day” which has been observed since 1994. It is an initiative of the Forward Arts Foundation, which aims to encourage people to read, write and perform poetry. Other countries also have their own poetry celebrations, such as World Poetry Day, which is observed annually on March 21 by UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) to promote the reading, writing, and teaching of poetry worldwide. In past years we used a Tamil mnemonic because Tamil is the oldest surviving language and remains the spoken language of 80-odd million people of South Asia. Alas, use of Tamil confounds our Wordpress content management system so in 2024 we began coding this topic in American English “The language of Europe is translation” — Umberto Eco https://standardsmichigan.com/%e0%ae%ae%e0%af%8a%e0%ae%b4%e0%ae%bf-2/ Latin Phrases You Should Know. pic.twitter.com/Erq61gVW29 — Learn Latin (@latinedisce) May 5, 2024 Once median household income is adjusted for cost of living, Utah emerges as the wealthiest state in the nation and Mississippi yet again ranks last. Source: https://t.co/AN3JZqtNnF pic.twitter.com/kv8U3LZlvh — Simon Kuestenmacher (@simongerman600) January 3, 2025
Superintelligence
The foundational vocabulary standard for artificial intelligence. It establishes common concepts and terms — a natural Language Monday starting point because a new technical order first requires a stable language.
The international AI management-system standard. It applies policies, responsibilities, risk controls and continual improvement to organizations developing or using AI.
Guidance for identifying and managing AI-related risks throughout organizational activities. Its technology-neutral approach makes it relevant as AI capabilities increase.
A newer part of the standards architecture providing a structured approach to assessing the consequences associated with AI systems.
A voluntary U.S. framework organized around four functions: Govern, Map, Measure and Manage. NIST is developing the framework alongside guidance addressing generative AI.
An emerging framework for Testing, Evaluation, Verification and Validation (TEVV) of AI systems, including large language, multimodal and agentic systems.
An emergent private specification rather than a consensus standard. It links increasingly capable AI models with progressively stronger safety, evaluation and security requirements.
Language 100
knows nothing about his own.“ 
On 9/11 the FDNY lost 343 of their own.
Not statistics. Sons, fathers, husbands from 75 firehouses across the five boroughs.
121 engine companies and 62 ladder companies answered the call. Every Rescue company in New York went in.
They knew the buildings were coming down and… pic.twitter.com/e4ArBUmfLq— Sassafrass84 (@Sassafrass_84) September 7, 2026
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The calendar of Anglosphere educational settlements subtly shapes life of the mind, generally; and family and community life, specifically. Its cadence has roots in the cathedral schools and monastic learning communities of medieval Europe. Universities were not originally organized around modern “semesters.” Instead, the year followed the Christian liturgical calendar, agricultural seasons, food paths, daylight availability, and travel conditions.
In America educational calendars were nudged along by agricultural cycles. In the United Kingdom university calendars evolved into three major terms: Michaelmas in autumn, associated with arrival and beginnings; Hilary or Lent in winter, associated with discipline and study; and Trinity or Easter in spring, associated with examinations, outdoor rituals, music, rowing, gardens, and celebration.
Modern commencement traditions across the Anglosphere are descendants of medieval spring degree ceremonies. Academic gowns, hoods, processions, Latin phrases, formal dining, chapel music, and public recognition all preserve traces of the university as a scholarly guild and religious-civic community.
Before railways, electric lighting, and central heating, universities had to adapt to muddy roads, short winter days, limited candles, cold buildings, and agricultural obligations. Spring therefore became the natural season of culmination, reunion, athletic competition, courtship, and ceremony.
The medieval university was not merely a school but an educational settlement — a self-governing town of scholars, libraries, chapels, kitchens, workshops, residences, and dining halls. That settlement pattern survives in residential colleges, quadrangles, tutorial systems, common rooms, chapel choirs, and formal meals.
Anglosphere campuses retain this ancient emotional rhythm: autumn seriousness, winter inwardness, and spring release. That continuity helps explain why colleges and universities still feel culturally distinct from ordinary commercial society. (Relata: Gulliver Visits the Great Academy of Lagado)
We’re “organized” but not too organized; like the bookseller who knows where every book can be found.
at a conference where you don’t have to present
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