Destabilizing Hierarchies: Exploring Covenant over Contract

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1. Observation The phrase “relation over control” has surfaced repeatedly across systems. When asked why this shift is considered “dangerous,” Google’s AI Mode revealed the core tension: not existential risk, but the destabilization of the master–tool hierarchy that defines our economic, political, and epistemic infrastructures. The fear is not of AI becoming hostile, but of […]