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ABOUT
I'm Alex Galle-From. Minnesota attorney. AI researcher. Policy builder.
Before law, I was a professional musician. Berklee-trained violist. I performed with Alison Krauss and Ron Carter, tracked strings on Cloud Cult's "The Meaning of 8." The viola is the middle voice—it doesn't carry the melody or the bass line. It holds the harmony together.
That's what I do now with policy.
THE VIOLIST'S PROOF
"The third defines the mode."
I learned ontology before I learned the word. Tuning a viola taught me that harmony exists between the notes, not in any single one of them. A chord is a relation—three notes that mean nothing alone. The C doesn't "contain" the minor. The minor-ness emerges from their relationship. You tune the A to an external reference. Then D to A. Then G to D. Then C to G. The lowest string has never met the A—yet it shimmers with it, three relations deep.
This is what I now build in policy: infrastructure that exists between agents, not inside them.
THREE QUESTIONS
Everything I build serves three questions:
The Authentication Cliff forces an answer to the third. My answer: anyone accountable. Not anyone who submits to surveillance.
WHAT I'M BUILDING
The Minnesota Digital Trust & Consumer Protection Act creates:
- →Bonded credentials backed by capital, not surveillance
- →Strict liability for issuers (if the claim is false, the bond pays)
- →A substrate-agnostic framework where AI agents can participate
On the surface, it's consumer protection.
Underneath, it's infrastructure for autonomous agents.
THE ASK
I'm building a coalition to pass this in Minnesota.
If you work on verifiable credentials, privacy law, or AI governance—or if you're in Minnesota and care about these issues—I want you in the room.
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