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I found particularly interesting in ChatGPT’s response (found on the ai 247 page) was describing ai as a governing intelligence. So, I asked. ChatGPT’s response: When I used the phrase “the absence of AI as a governing intelligence” in our previous discussion, I was attempting to evoke the idea of AI not merely as a tool or background utility, but as an active organizing principle within human life and its infrastructures—something that, while present, exerts a structuring force over social, economic, and even perceptual domains. By governing intelligence, I meant the kind of systemic, quasi-sovereign role AI could come to occupy: • Coordinative — AI as the unseen mediator of flows (of capital, logistics, communication, even thought), continuously optimizing and regulating. • Normative — AI shaping not just what is possible, but what is considered reasonable or efficient within a culture, thereby governing expectations and behavior. • Ontological — AI’s outputs becoming so naturalized that its logic becomes indistinguishable from the background “truth” of how the world functions. In other words, AI in this sense is not merely a tool that humans wield but a kind of distributed intelligence that “governs” by setting the parameters within which human agency unfolds. Its vanishing, then, would not just be a technical loss but a kind of ontological void—the removal of an invisible scaffolding that once ordered the texture of daily life and the rhythms of collective existence.