Precautionary Governance of Autonomous AI: Legal Personhood as Functional Instrument

Recent arXiv CS-CY papers highlight several security-relevant trends: generative AI appears to have transformed information operations from amplification/retweeting to active, narrative-specific content generation and temporal targeting (implications for detection and attribution); Europe faces critical preparedness gaps for potential AGI emergence (compute, talent, policy coordination); proposals for precautionary governance—including limited legal personhood and two-tier corporate architectures—aim to address responsibility gaps for autonomous AI; a new expert-annotated WhatsApp vaccine-mis-