The Anansi Doctrine: A Thought Experiment on AI, Power, and What the Caribbean Should Protect

Whoever holds the models holds the stories a society tells itself. The mechanism is acquisition and daily habit, worked out over years, with no coercion required for the effect to accumulate.

When a model becomes the first place people go with a question, the model's habitual answers become, over time, the region's habitual beliefs. The keeper of the model is the keeper of the region's story infrastructure.