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title: "Positions — Mario Brcic"
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summary: "Public positions taken by Mario Brcic on the questions that matter most for AI in the era of polycrisis: cognitive sovereignty, value alignment, AI governance, the geopolitics of compute and cognition."
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# Where I stand on the questions that matter

Four questions. Four positions. Each backed by a paper or essay, not just an opinion.

## 01 — Who should govern AI memory?

**Stake**: AI memory is a sovereignty issue, not a privacy one. Nations need portability, transparency, and the option of running their own. Treat it like infrastructure, because it is.

**Backing**:
- Paper: *The Memory Wars* (arXiv:2508.05867) — https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.05867
- Essay: *The Memory Wars* — https://mariobrcic.com/writing/ai-memory-sovereignty-strategy/

## 02 — Where does AI alignment hit a hard wall?

**Stake**: Alignment isn't infinitely solvable. There are formal proofs that some kinds of safe behaviour can never be guaranteed. Real frameworks should respect those limits, not pretend they don't exist.

**Backing**:
- Brcic & Yampolskiy — *Impossibility Results in AI* (ACM Computing Surveys, 2023) — https://mariobrcic.com/publications/brcic-yampolskiy-impossibility-2023/
- Essay: *Impossibility theorems in AI* — https://mariobrcic.com/writing/impossibility-theorems-in-ai/

## 03 — How does AI end up running the show without anyone voting for it?

**Stake**: Quietly. Decisions get routed through AI faster than accountability can keep up. Call this what it is — shadow sovereignty — and you can start governing it.

**Backing**:
- *The Power Gambit Pt 1 — Shadow Sovereignty* — https://mariobrcic.com/writing/ai-misalignment-risks-shadow-sovereignty/
- *The Power Gambit Pt 2 — Alignment frameworks* — https://mariobrcic.com/writing/ai-alignment-framework-seal-reaim-tune/

## 04 — What should leaders actually pay attention to right now?

**Stake**: Not the dashboard. Not the latest agent demo. The decision itself — its options, its blind spots, who else is at the table. Build tools that serve that, not the other way around.

**Backing**:
- [Strategy Engines](https://mariobrcic.com/strategy-engines/)
- [Practice areas](https://mariobrcic.com/ai-decision-intelligence/)