Gates is wrong to suggest that the world needs institutions capable of governing AI. Any institution created to govern power acquires power of its own and, like any power, tends toward self-preservation and expansion, ultimately organizing itself around its own continuity rather than merely constraining the power it was created to govern. What the world needs first is Trias Algorithmica. Just as Trias Politica separates rule-making, executive, and adjudicative powers, we now