Why War and the Rights of Machines: What Einstein and Freud Teach Us About AI Governance
In 1932, Einstein asked Freud a deceptively simple question: why do humans wage war despite knowing its destructiveness? Their exchange — and the convergence of fourteen independent wisdom traditions on five structural invariants — maps directly onto AI governance. The same patterns that drive human conflict now shape how autonomous systems concentrate power, distort information, and erode dignity.