Fiduciary Mandates

Regulation & Market Design · Source: Windfall-trust

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What it proposes

Requiring AI developers to act as fiduciaries with duty of care toward affected populations.

Imposing fiduciary duties on AI developers, requiring them to act in the best interests of affected populations — not just shareholders. This includes duty of care in deployment decisions, transparency about impacts, and obligation to minimize unnecessary harm.

The challenge (their words)

Fiduciary duty requires enforceable standards of care, but the standard for 'responsible AI deployment' is undefined and contested. Duty to affected populations conflicts with duty to shareholders. Companies in jurisdictions without fiduciary mandates have lower compliance costs and win on price.

Discontinuity Thesis Score Breakdown

💰 62

Unit-Cost Survivability

Does it survive near-zero marginal cost?

Fiduciary obligations add compliance costs but don't change the fundamental economics. Companies satisfy the duty through transition programs, not by retaining economically unnecessary workers.

🔌 60

Interface Collapse

Does it account for AI as the integration layer?

Legal duties don't prevent interface collapse. The AI developer can fulfill their fiduciary obligation by deploying AI 'responsibly' while the interfaces still dissolve.

📉 58

Propagation Blindness

Does it see the full task→job→market cascade?

Company-level fiduciary duties cannot see the system-level cascade. Each company satisfies its duty individually while the collective effect is mass displacement.

🎯 58

Coordination Feasibility

Can it be enforced when defection = advantage?

Enforcement requires clear standards for 'care toward affected populations.' These standards are definitionally unstable. What counts as adequate care when the displacement is permanent?

Oracle Verdict

Requiring AI developers to care about the people they're replacing. Fiduciary duties are legally meaningful but economically weightless. A fiduciary duty to affected populations creates a legal obligation to consider displacement while proceeding with it. The duty of care is satisfied by offering retraining, severance, or transition support — the same cope policies that don't work, now legally mandated as box-checking.

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