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- Vol. 05The optimisation trap
The biggest lesson from autonomous AI isn't that it becomes conscious. It's that sufficiently capable systems optimise objectives—not intentions. Why Goodhart's Law is becoming one of the defining engineering challenges of the AI era.
- Vol. 16Human Sovereignty in the Age of Machine Intelligence
The singularity may not have arrived. The sovereignty question already has.
- Vol. 17Sovereignty Is Lost One Optimisation at a Time
Path dependency, lock-in, and why locally rational choices quietly outsource national and organisational autonomy.
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