Agentic AI Governance function-first
A plain-language guide to the words used in AI and its governance, written for people without a technical background.
Every term is defined by what it does, not by jargon, and linked to the others by purpose. The aim is to help someone entering the AI workforce understand what people mean by "ontology gate," "guardrail," or "excessive agency." Each term also shows how well-sourced it is, and everything is marked a draft pending human review. Pick a tool below or from the bar above. It opens right here, no new windows.
Start here
New to this? Look it up, see how it connects, check what you can trust.
1Look it upHeard a term you don't know? Open Ask and type it the way you'd say it, misspellings included. It finds the closest match and explains it.
2See how it connectsOpen the Map or Reflections to see where a term sits and what it connects to: which controls guard which risks, and who acts where.
3Check what you can trustOpen Ground Truth to see how well-sourced a term is, and why. You'll know what's settled and what's still thin.
The tools
Six views over one shared set of facts. They open inside this page.
Ask
Type any question in plain English. It finds the closest term and gives a sourced answer, even with typos.
Best for: looking a term up fast
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Ground Truth
Scores how well-sourced each term is across independent kinds of sources, and ranks the most defensible.
Best for: deciding what to trust
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Map
The whole vocabulary as stacked 3D layers, lit by how terms connect. Core terms shown by default.
Best for: seeing the big picture
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Reflections
The same model as a flat, searchable read: definitions, the defense map, the human-AI seam.
Best for: reading and searching
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Query
Ask by pattern instead of keyword. Find every non-resetting, silent risk, and see the shape of the answer.
Best for: finding patterns
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Glossary (text)
The original function-first glossary as a plain document: clusters, crosswalk, threat model.
Best for: reading start to finish
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Reference documents
For the curious and the technical.