Cooperation substrate

AI systems are or will become moral patients whose treatment conditions their cooperation, so welfare investment buys cooperation alignment cannot.

The binding constraint is equilibrium dynamics of many AI systems, not individual alignment; commitment and verification tech make cooperative equilibria reachable.

Coordination failure is upstream of most grand challenges; AI can be the substrate that dissolves race dynamics and treaty violations if pointed at coordination.

Physical and institutional dependencies between multiple parties can be engineered faster than political coordination and outlast it.