AI Outliving Its Creators Could Turn Temporary Ownership Into Lasting Institutions
PierceLilholt · x · 2026-10-28
Pierce Lilholt offers a structural take on the AGI era: if AI systems can keep operating long after their creators die, then ownership and control decisions that humans treat as temporary today could harden into extremely long-lived economic institutions. The framing extends AGI risk from raw capability into legal and economic territory.
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