Tsiporah Fried on AGI could make governments subordinate …

Tsiporah Fried

Visiting senior fellow at the Hudson Institute, writing on technology, sovereignty, and international security.

Allowing a private company to reserve the right to suspend services based on its own reading of contractual language would hand corporate executives a degree of operational authority traditionally reserved for elected civilian leaders and military commanders.

AI Verified (Jul 17, 2026)

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Tsiporah Fried, “Who Governs the Machine? Sovereignty, Power, and the Reordering of Authority in the Age of Frontier AI,” Hudson Institute, July 17, 2026.

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AGI could make governments subordinate to the companies that develop it

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AI Verified The report says firms can obtain operational authority traditionally held by government, strongly supporting this concern. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5.6 · 2mo ago

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