AI companies are writing constitutions. The White House wants to overrule the states. States are refusing. Defense agencies want fewer red lines. Export controls are already turning advanced AI into a geopolitical access regime. Meanwhile, everybody keeps saying "alignment" as though this were merely an engineering concern.

This General Seminar is for policy advisors, strategists, technologists, public-interest technologists, governance teams, and institutional decision-makers who need a better language for what is actually happening: a live struggle over legitimacy, access, and who gets to write the rules for powerful models.