In many AI and cybersecurity approaches, governance is gradually embedded into the technical system itself: encoded rules, automated controls, mechanisms that “decide” what is allowed and what is not.
This may appear efficient, but it introduces a structural flaw:
authority shifts from people and institutions to technology.
Governance cannot depend on a system functioning correctly.
It must exist before, above, and independent of any technical component.
When a system fails, degrades, or is replaced, the legitimacy of decisions cannot disappear with it.
If authority collapses alongside technology, the issue is not a technical failure — it is a governance design failure.
For this reason, in complex and high-risk environments, governance is not conceived as a function of the system, but as an independent structural property, capable of sustaining accountability and control even as technology changes.
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