The Generative Commons

Order is often assumed to come from control: more process, more oversight, more rules. This response is understandable when systems are under strain. But control is effective only when the underlying capacity to cooperate is already present. When that capacity weakens, control becomes costly and increasingly ineffective.

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Cooperation by Construction: A Framework for Governing Frontier AI

What makes AI unsettling is not only the pace of the technology but the way our institutions respond to it. Governments cling to control. Companies build walls around their models. Standards splinter. Safety protocols multiply even though no one can verify them. Each regulatory bloc pushes its preferred approach and none of them can see what the others are doing. In a field built on speed and interaction, our systems behave as if steady, top-down authority were still enough to produce order. It’s not.

AI Governance Black Box Systems

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