Legal Personhood: an Unprotected AI Power Chokepoint

Adapted from my Substack. This is the first installment of a series operationalizing the resilience program from AI as Normal Technology.Epistemic status: Confident in the core thesis, less certain of its broader significance. The closing section says what would move me.AI use: I used Claude Opus 5.5 for research, drafts, and review. I manually reviewed and redrafted every word in the final version dozens of times, retaining AI text only when I could not improve upon it.Much of the AI risk conve...