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April 22, 20260 citationsOpen Access

The Illusion of Control: How AI Governance Became Performative

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OKOybek KhodjaevContextual Change (United States)

Key Points

  • The essay explores how AI governance frameworks are more about appearance than actual control, highlighting a deeper institutional issue.
  • Analyzes historical governance failures, specifically the USSR collapse and the OpenAI governance crisis.
  • Examines institutional capacities and frameworks relating to AI governance.
  • Demonstrates that many AI governance frameworks lack true oversight capabilities.
  • Argues that the failure of AI governance is primarily an institutional issue, not a technical one.

Abstract

This essay examines how AI governance frameworks have become performative rather than functional — producing the appearance of control without its substance. Drawing on the structural patterns of the USSR collapse (1991) and the OpenAI governance crisis (2023), the author argues that the failure of AI governance is not a technical problem but an institutional one: governance architectures lack the structural capacity to exercise meaningful oversight over systems they formally control. Essay 1 of the series Beyond Control: Theory of Limits of AI Governance by Oybek Khodjaev (INVEXI LLC, Tashkent, Uzbekistan). Full text: https://okhodjaev.com/essays/the-illusion-of-control/

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Oybek Khodjaev (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/69e866616e0dea528ddeabf1https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19659249
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