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Regulating for AI Legitimacy

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 sociological: the belief among those subject to power t

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Published: 27 July 2026
Source: arXiv cs.AI
Category: Research
Topics: Regulation · Safety & alignment
Retrieved: 28 July 2026

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