W7203472775 Working papers AI × management and organizations

Own Your AI Before It Owns You: A Graph Theory of Civilization, and Its Only Two Futures

David Chaum

Also recorded as: doi:10.2139/ssrn.7272579 · ssrn:7272579

ssrn abstract page · 2026-08-14

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The abstract models persistent personal AI state as an asset around which intermediaries can form rent-generating chokepoints, and contrasts machine-side custody with user-held cryptographic keys and genuine portability as alternative market structures.

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Scope: platform power, switching costs, data custody, and AI-market structure

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