Cognitive Sovereignty

Essays

• 2026The Effortless Trap: Productive Struggle, AI, and the Illusion of Learning

  A frame-level map of the six moves a student makes when learning one idea, and where AI earns its place and where it wrecks the learning. By Mario Brcic and Stjepan Frljic.

• 2025The Power Gambit: Shadow Sovereignty and the Geometry of Delegated Control (Part 2)

  Part 2 pivots from value misalignment risks to show historical…

• 2025The Power Gambit: Shadow Sovereignty and the Geometry of Delegated Control (Part 1)

  This essay on AI misalignment risks examines delegation geometry through…

• 2025The Memory Wars: Why AI's Sticky Feature Is a Sovereignty Issue

  Last month, my AI assistant delivered a general blindspot analysis…