We have spent much of the AI governance debate asking what artificial intelligence should be allowed to do. I believe there is a prior question we have not examined closely enough: what makes algorithmic power legitimate? Montesquieu’s warning about concentrated power was written for political institutions, not algorithms. Yet the principle behind it has surprising relevance to AI. When the same organization can effectively design an algorithmic system that fuses rule-making,

What artificial intelligence lacks, and what few if any benchmarks truly formalize or meaningfully penalize, is integrity. While others are racing toward more artificial intelligence within artificial intelligence itself, the real challenge of our era is the race toward more Artificial Integrity over intelligence. Check out the full article on Forbes

More and more voices around the world are acknowledging our algorithmically mediated reality. Reality is to say that algorithmic systems are algorithmic power. The legitimacy we never questioned In March 2023, the Future of Life Institute and thousands of signatories, including Yoshua Bengio, Stuart Russell, Yuval Noah Harari, and Steve Wozniak, called for a six-month pause in training AI systems more powerful than GPT-4. This asks for the power to pause. Later that year, Dar

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