The people with the most to gain from weak AI rules are writing them. We file the counter. We build the exit.

The Spalding Paradox: entities with the greatest commercial interest in minimal AI regulation dominate the governance conversation. That is how a technology this consequential ends up shaped by the few people it will make the richest.

8GI does two things about it. We file submissions to the legislatures considering AI, from outside that capture, on the record. And we build the alternative: free, local, sovereign AGI infrastructure anyone can run on their own machine, so the exit is real, not rhetorical.