Governance · Concept
Regulating for AI Legitimacy beyond Alignment
Treats sociological legitimacy of AI authority as distinct from alignment, stressing opacity, private power, and admin automation.
Forecast horizon
Authorization and contestability rules may join safety metrics as first-class regulatory aims.
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from · informs 4/10
Asymmetric Communication: LLMs and Language Games If LLMs lack discursive standing, legitimacy questions shift to human authorization and uptake rather than model agency.
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Multi-Attribute Instrument for AI Governance Proposal Analysis Multi-attribute policy rubrics can surface legitimacy and authorization tradeoffs without collapsing to binary camps.
+4 growth from · enables 4/10
AISPA: User-Centric System Prompt Auditing Auditing hidden system prompts addresses opacity that blocks publics from judging rightful AI authority.
+4 growth from · publishes 3/10
arXiv AI Safety Feed The legitimacy article appears in the day's arXiv AI safety set.
+3 growth to · requires 3/10
Specification Infrastructure Layer for AI Oversight Both argue alignment/performance alone cannot secure rightful authority; specification and authorization structures are prior.
+3 growth from · supports 3/10
AISPA: User-Centric System Prompt Auditing System-prompt opacity and uneven protective instructions exemplify private AI power lacking public authorization.
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EU AI Act timeline Aug 2025
EU AI Act obligations for general-purpose AI models applied from 2 Aug 2025; high-risk obligations under Annex III apply from 2 Aug 2026.
EU AI Act — implementation tracker → First binding treaty May 2026
The Council of Europe Framework Convention on AI — the first legally binding international AI treaty — opened for signature in Sep 2024; the EU ratified it on 15 May 2026.
Council of Europe → UN scientific panel Aug 2025
On 26 Aug 2025 the UN General Assembly created an Independent International Scientific Panel on AI (40 experts) and a Global Dialogue on AI Governance.
United Nations →