Research program — manifesto
Strategy Engines for the Cognitive-Sovereignty Era
How to do real strategy on hard problems, when AI is changing who's in charge of thinking — and when some things AI will never be able to decide for us.
The defining strategic question of this era is not which AI to build — but who gets to think for whom, and on whose terms.
— Mario Brcic
Long-form version in progress. The argument is already out in pieces. Here's where to read them:
- Strategy Engines — what the program is and how it fits together.
- The Memory Wars (+ arXiv:2508.05867) — why AI memory is a sovereignty problem.
- The Power Gambit (Part 1) — how AI ends up running things without anyone deciding it should.
- The Power Gambit (Part 2) — a working approach to keeping AI aligned.
- Impossibility Results in AI (with Roman Yampolskiy, ACM CSUR 2023) — the things alignment can never guarantee.
Argue with the thesis.
Counter-arguments, sharp critiques, and adjacent work — write directly. The thesis evolves through pushback.
Write to Mario