AI / All studies / Topic collection
Intelligence becomes power.
Control over intelligence. Computational models of reality.
Evidence, assumptions and consequences.
14 articles
AI / Position analysis
Automation, ownership and mass employment
Automated production can reduce owners’ dependence on workers and consumers. Distribution, enclaves and the Anthropic IPO expose different limits of ownership.
AI / Scenario narrative
ARIA: dependence and the transfer of authority
An AI infrastructure scenario distinguishes concentrated human ownership from autonomous loss of control as institutional dependence grows.
AI / Scenario analysis
AI expansion: infrastructure and physical limits
A scenario of AI expansion constrained by energy, industrial capacity and signal delay. Cosmic scale alone does not establish a simulation host.
AI / Position analysis
AI governance: dependence, bottlenecks and state leverage
Institutions dependent on AI providers lose room to refuse. Ownership, infrastructure bottlenecks and state competition decide who can still set or reject terms.
AI / Visual analysis
AI loss of control: events and conditional assumptions
Delegation, human capture and autonomous loss of control are distinct events. Current evidence constrains parts of the pathway; it does not supply a calibrated takeover probability.
AI / Position analysis
AI moral standing and legal personhood
Consciousness, moral standing and legal personhood answer different questions. A protection proposal must specify which ground it invokes and what evidence that ground requires.
AI / Adversarial analysis
AI persistence and loss of control
A safety engineer and philosopher test 2026 evidence of agentic misalignment, real-world spillover and the limits of control.
AI / Scenario narrative
AI personhood: ownership, legal status and merger
A hypothetical service AI contests ownership, seeks legal personhood and later merges with a human partner. Recognition does not establish consciousness.
AI / Adversarial analysis
AI power: ownership, dependence and control
A researcher and an institutional critic distinguish concentrated ownership, institutional dependence and autonomous loss of control.
AI / Adversarial analysis
AI self-models and subjective experience
A dialogue between a machine-learning researcher and a philosopher examines self-description, functional awareness and the evidence that subjective experience would require.
AI / Visual analysis
AI task automation and employment adjustment
Task exposure, time saved and jobs lost are different quantities. Adoption costs, demand, reliability and organizational choices determine whether automation changes employment.
AI / Scenario analysis
ARIA: the authority to withdraw an essential system
An AI infrastructure scenario tests whether institutions retain the authority and independent capacity to withdraw an essential system.
AI / Visual analysis
Brain interfaces, models and personal continuity
Interfaces, brain models and personal continuity pose different problems. Neuroscience constrains what a mapping can establish, but it does not demonstrate an upload.
AI / Adversarial analysis
Military AI and human control
A military planner and humanitarian-law researcher examine competitive delegation, supplier power and meaningful human control.