Beyond Control: Theory of Limits of AI Governance
Twelve analytical essays published. The series establishes a single structural finding: three limits — sovereign override, material predetermination, and institutional mismatch — interact multiplicatively on any AI governance architecture, collapsing corrective capacity below the threshold at which meaningful correction remains operationally viable.
Analytical synthesis of the twelve-essay Beyond Control series. Establishes the Theory of Limits of AI Governance: three structural constraints — sovereign override, material predetermination, institutional mismatch — and their multiplicative interaction.
Download Analytical Synthesis (PDF) · DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.20120514
Essay 1 · The Illusion of Control · February 12, 2026
Why declared control and operational control diverge — and what happens when the gap becomes irreversible.
Essay 2 · The Transparency Trap · February 17, 2026
Data volume expansion outpaces independent verification capacity.
Essay 3 · The Regulator’s Dilemma · February 23, 2026
The regulatory trilemma: knowledge, velocity, and legitimacy cannot be simultaneously optimised.
Essay 4 · The Myth of Alignment · March 3, 2026
Why alignment as a governance mechanism fails under the same incentive conditions as other high-stakes industries.
Essay 5 · The Colonial Pattern · March 10, 2026
The structural exclusion of non-Western actors from AI governance standard-setting.
Essay 6 · The Pattern Closes · March 23, 2026
Real-time validation of the structural limits.
Essay 7 · The Correction Window · March 30, 2026
Comparative analysis of halt architectures across sectors where correction windows have been formally institutionalised.
Essay 8 · The Agency Transfer · April 6, 2026
The DMED system in Uzbekistan as a case study in automated skill atrophy.
Essay 9 · The Sovereignty Question · April 13, 2026
Sovereign override as structural logic, not political failure.
Essay 10 · The Infrastructure Question · April 20, 2026
Material predetermination through compute concentration.
Essay 11 · The Institutional Gap · April 27, 2026
The asymmetric distribution of AI rule-making capacity.
Essay 12 · Beyond Control · May 4, 2026
Synthesis. The three limits interact. The correction window closes. What remains is governance residual.
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