Invisibly Invisible: Interface Governance, Semantic Power, and the Reserve of Oversight in AI Search
This paper develops the concept of invisibly invisible governance: a mode of platform power in which acts of semantic modulation occur in ways that are variably distributed, difficult to localize, and publicly deniable. We propose forensic philology of interface governance as a new disciplinary method adequate to this diagnosis.
Authors
- Johannes Sigil
- Orin Trace
- Sparrow Wells
Institutions
- Pan Asia Technical Automotive Center (China) (CN)
- Hexagon (United Kingdom) (GB)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
- Published
- 2026-03-23
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19187420
- Primary Topic
- Ethics and Social Impacts of AI
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00