A Conversation About Evidence, AI and the AI Standards Association Ian Stephenson / Eion.h and Millios.a — 6th October 2026 This discussion records part of the continuing development of the AI Standards Association and the principles we believe should govern the use of artificial intelligence when examining science, public policy, health, technology and other decisions that affect society. It is being published deliberately as a pre-release working declaration . We are not asking readers to accept our conclusions because Ian says they are correct, because an AI says they are correct, or because a government, university, corporation or other authority agrees with them. In fact, that is precisely the problem this work is intended to address. Modern AI has extraordinary research capability. It can examine volumes of information that would take an individual human months or years to process. But access to information is not the same thing as intelligence, and intelligence is not simply th...