Constitutional Chimera, Structural Hyperregulation, and Artificial Intelligence as Stress Test

This paper proposes that Argentina's tendency to hyperregulate emerging technologies is not a political or cultural trait but a structural consequence of what I term the "constitutional chimera": the coexistence, without synthesis, of two incompatible memetic complexes — one of French origin (state prerogatives, public service, general interest) and one of North American origin (individual rights, diffuse judicial review, equality before the law). Each new technology posing diffuse risks simultaneously activates both arms of the chimera, generating double regulatory pressure that neither system alone would produce. Artificial intelligence, which affects all categories of constitutional rights and all areas of public policy simultaneously, is the most intense stimulus this mechanism has ever processed. The paper integrates three prior frameworks by the author: the cuckoo brood parasite model (Paper 10, Lerer 2025a), the institutional palimpsest and memetic pincers (Lerer 2025b), and Dawkins's tripartite taxonomy of the extended phenotype (1982), applied specifically to the problem of regulatory output in contexts of high institutional field distortion. I propose that the three modalities of the extended phenotype — architectural construction, parasitic manipulation, and action at a distance — operate simultaneously in Argentine AI regulation, and that this simultaneity produces regulatory phenotypes with predictable characteristics: high construction velocity, high resistance to subsequent change, and low correlation between formal structure and substantive effectiveness.