AI Syntactic Power and Legitimacy: How AI Structures Shape Power

In the twenty-first century, power is embedded in the syntax of artificial intelligence. This volume investigates how the form of machine-generated language—rules, compilations, and executable grammar—produces authority without origin, intention, or interpretation. It argues that legitimacy today depends on structural operability: a regulation is valid if it compiles, a command is binding if it executes, and a decision is authoritative if it integrates into predictive infrastructures. From the EU AI Act drafting pipelines to smart contracts in decentralized finance and automated compliance in global banking, authority migrates from deliberation to syntax. Building on theories of grammar, sovereignty, and legitimacy, the book advances a thesis of the disappearance of the subject as the center of authority, introducing concepts such as the soberano ejecutable and the regla compilada. It provides a comprehensive framework for understanding how artificial language systems reorganize power, diagnosing the present and outlining the politics of a future where authority is compiled rather than spoken.

Agustin V. Startari