Who governs the machine that governs: AI sovereignty and the new global divide

ON 29 September, OpenAI unveiled “always-on” autonomous agents designed not merely to answer prompts but to pursue goals across applications. With that, AI has crossed from a technology of assistance and content creation into an infrastructure of delegated agency, and the world is scrambling to decide how to regulate its risks, constrain its excesses and assign responsibility for its decisions.

However, while many institutions still approach governance largely as a software issue, the challenge reaches much deeper, into the political economy that determines who owns the models, commands the infrastructure, allocates the capital, sets standards, retains expertise and, ultimately, preserves human agency.

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9月29日，OpenAI发布了“始终在线”的自主代理，这些代理不仅能够响应提示，还能在各种应用中实现目标。由此，人工智能已从辅助和内容创作技术转变为一种授权代理的基础设施，世界各国正争相探讨如何监管其风险、限制其过度行为并明确其决策的责任归属。

然而，尽管许多机构仍然主要将治理视为软件问题，但挑战远不止于此，它深入到政治经济领域，决定着谁拥有模型、掌控基础设施、分配资本、制定标准、保留专业知识，并最终维护人类的自主权。

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