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Consumer refusal

Demand shapes supply; if enough users refuse AI that fails safety criteria, labs will compete on those criteria.

Mechanism

Bottom-up consumer boycotts, worker organising, safety labels, and ethical certifications that shift demand.

Falsification signal

Major lab scandals produce no measurable user migration, which is the current pattern.

A strategy held without a falsification signal is not strategy; it is affiliation. Continued support after this signal lands is identity, not bet. See the identity diagnostic.

Coordinates

Primary leverCulture (Cultivate)

Acts onpopulation culture

Coercionmarket

Actor in controlhumans

Time horizonhorizon neutral

Legitimacy sourcemarket

Conflicts, grouped by mechanism

No strict conflicts catalogued. This strategy pulls a lever that nothing else pulls in the opposite direction.

Complements, grouped by mechanism

Same-side diversification

same side, different lever

Both act on the same side (AI or world) but pull distinct levers. They cover several failure modes on that side while leaving the other side uncovered.

Mass literacyDemocratic mandateLiability driven safety

Adjacent bet

different levers, loosely coupled

Different levers, different directions of action. They reinforce only via the general principle that covering more bets dominates covering fewer.

Information integrity first

Same-lever twins

Both use the same lever in the same direction. Usually redundant inside a portfolio: each dollar or effort unit only buys one lever pull, even if two strategies are named.

Research community normstwinUbuntu relational AItwin

Axis position

What the strategy acts onPopulation / culture

Coercion levelMarket

Actor in controlHumans as principals

Time horizonHorizon-neutral

Legitimacy sourceMarket

Source note: Consumer refusal strategy.md