Owner Without Rivals: Why Planetary Intelligence Requires Nonprofit Stewardship

Book Description

Artificial intelligence is becoming infrastructure. The urgent question is no longer only what it can do, but who should own and steward it.

Owner Without Rivals advances a rigorously reasoned case for placing planetary-scale intelligence under nonprofit stewardship rather than leaving its ultimate control to institutions driven by competitive profit incentives.

Blending legal theory, economics, institutional analysis, and ethical philosophy, Michael Elfellah examines fiduciary pressure, rivalry, lock-in, dependency, epistemic authority, neutrality, and the structural limits of relying on corporate promises alone.

The book offers policymakers, technologists, regulators, institutional leaders, and scholars a practical lens for evaluating whether an AI provider is bound by enforceable obligations to humanity—and how nonprofit control can coexist with capable commercial subsidiaries.

If intelligence is becoming infrastructure, its owner must be worthy of that responsibility.