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Power & Governance
6 plates
- F.35 States: Surveillance and Social Control How governments use AI — to score, nudge, regulate, propagandize. China is the limit case; democracies are using a softer version of the same toolkit.
- F.36 Corporations: Persuasive Design How corporations use AI to shape consumer choices — algorithmic marketing, dynamic pricing, persuasive interfaces, and the rise of "behavioral science" as an industrial discipline.
- F.37 State-Corporate Synergies Where state and corporate uses of AI overlap, reinforce, or constrain each other — and the policy questions the overlap produces.
- F.38 Prospective Scenarios Three plausible 2025–2035 trajectories for the cognitive ecology under different policy and technical choices — channeled, drifted, captured. Not predictions; framings.
- F.39 Recommendations and Governance Pathways The catalogue of policy responses currently on the table — across education, technology, regulation, and institutional reform — and what each one realistically achieves.
- F.40 Reading the Whole Argument A synthesis essay — the encyclopedia's argument as a single arc, from cognitive offloading at the individual level to the question of who orchestrates whose thinking at the planetary one.