{
  "id": 13795,
  "url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.24391",
  "title": "Regulating for AI Legitimacy",
  "summary": "arXiv:2607.24391v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: AI systems already govern. They rank speech and allocate attention, filter applicants and triage claims. The dominant frame for AI governance, alignment, asks whether such systems pursue the right objectives safely. It cannot answer a prior question: by what right are those objectives set and enforced? This Article argues that legitimacy is an autonomous regulatory objective, distinct from alignment and not secured by it. Legitimacy here is sociolo",
  "authors": "Gilad Abiri",
  "category": "research",
  "topics": "regulation,safety-alignment",
  "orgs": null,
  "regions": null,
  "published_at": "2026-07-28T04:00:00.000Z",
  "fetched_at": "2026-07-28T05:10:12.325Z",
  "source_slug": "arxiv-cscy",
  "source_name": "arXiv cs.CY",
  "source_homepage": "https://arxiv.org/list/cs.CY/recent",
  "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/13795",
  "original_url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.24391",
  "evidence_status": "source-only",
  "attribution": "via ethics.ai"
}