The Custody of Intelligence

Power, Sovereignty, and Human Agency Beyond the Open–Closed Divide

Two-page executive brief · Version 1.0 · Published · Not peer-reviewed

The defining governance question of the intelligence age is not whether AI models are open or closed but who holds custody — the legal, physical, and operational sovereignty over the authority machine intelligence exercises — and how that power remains permanently accountable to human institutions.

Read the full 82-page monograph · DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.21707227 · Author: Mark Sendo