Basil C. Puglisi, MPA, is a Human-AI Collaboration Strategist and the author of Governing AI: When Capability Exceeds Control, published in November 2025. He created Factics, the method that pairs every fact with a tactic and a measurable outcome. He first stated it publicly at the Social Mobile Analytics Content Summit at NYXPO, Javits Center, in October 2012.
Factics is the foundation of the HAIA Ecosystem, the framework set Basil publishes at basilpuglisi.com: Factics, HAIA-RECCLIN, HAIA-CAIPR, Checkpoint-Based Governance, and HEQ/AIS.
Published Work
Books
Governing AI: When Capability Exceeds Control
Second Edition
Basil’s response to Geoffrey Hinton’s warnings, with a constitutional model for AI oversight and human primacy.
Digital Factics X
The Success Guide to Mastering Business Growth on X, Second Edition
The Factics method applied to X, replacing guesswork with measurable strategy for building an audience on the platform formerly known as Twitter.
The Minds That Bend the Machine
How AI Literacy Is Built in Practice and Expanded by Exploring the Research
It is a book about learning how to ask better questions before someone else, human or machine, answers them for you. What do I not know? That question begins the journey.
Coming October 2026
Basil also serves as volunteer Chair of the Enterprise and Ecosystem Accountability working group, Trust Stack Layer 5, at the Institute for Advertising Ethics. The IAE is a registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit educational foundation that works on ethical standards across advertising communications. Layer 5 owns the standard of proof, because a claim without a record is a marketing statement.
He holds a Master of Public Administration from Michigan State University. His papers, framework pages, and more than 1,000 articles published since 2009 live at basilpuglisi.com.
Where the Checkpoint Comes From
The checkpoint thinking behind that work comes from twelve years as a Port Authority Police Officer at LaGuardia Airport. There, every high-consequence decision ran through a defined point of authority and left a record behind it.
In Port Authority Police uniform on the set of Person of Interest at the Telehouse Teleport Data Center on Staten Island, with Amy Acker (Root) and Michael Emerson (Harold Finch), and with Kevin Chapman (Detective Lionel Fusco). The CBS drama followed the Machine, a government AI built to collate every source of information and predict attacks.
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