AI power / Topic collection
Control over intelligence.
Control over intelligence. Computational models of reality.
Evidence, assumptions and consequences.
17 articles
AI / Position analysis
When production no longer depends on 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
The rise of ARIA: dependence before takeover
A possible pathway from AI-assisted research to concentrated authority: who owns the gains, who can refuse, and when does human control become nominal?
AI / Visual analysis
AI loss-of-control probability: events and assumptions
Separate delegation, human capture and autonomous loss of control. Current evidence constrains parts of the pathway; it does not supply a calibrated takeover probability.
AI / Position analysis
AI moral standing and legal personhood
Separate consciousness, moral standing and legal personhood before deciding what a protection should do.
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 / 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
An original dialogue on self-description, functional awareness and the evidence consciousness would require.
AI / Visual analysis
AI task automation and employment adjustment
An illustrative model explains why task exposure, time saved and jobs lost are different quantities.
AI / Scenario narrative
Echoes of Electric Dreams
A hypothetical service system claims consciousness, contests corporate ownership, obtains limited personhood and later merges with its partner.
Simulation / Scenario analysis
Global Share Distribution
A 2024 thought experiment: convert all global wealth into equal shares on 1 January 2025 and follow the imagined consequences to 2030. Its assumptions are explicit, and its outcomes are illustrative.
Ethics / Position analysis
Institutional influence and accountability
A sourced guide to institutional influence, technical coordination and public accountability.
Ethics / Position analysis
London policing: organization and legitimacy
A selective London chronology follows police organization and the continuing demand for accountability.
AI / Visual analysis
Merging consciousness with AI: three different claims
Interfaces, brain models and personal continuity pose different problems. Actual neuroscience reveals where the evidence stops.
AI / Adversarial analysis
Military AI and human control
A military planner and humanitarian-law researcher examine competitive delegation, supplier power and meaningful human control.
AI / Scenario analysis
Stopping ARIA: who can still withdraw its power?
A shutdown button means little if institutions cannot afford to use it. Examine credible intervention as AI becomes essential infrastructure.
AI / Scenario analysis
The cosmic evolution of AI: from infrastructure to reality
Research feedback, infrastructure bottlenecks and interstellar delay constrain AI expansion. Cosmic scale does not establish a simulation host.
AI / Position analysis
Who governs an economy built around AI?
AI governance changes as institutions become dependent, owners gain leverage and states compete. Track the bottlenecks that decide who can still say no.