Progress Without Possession: Why Artificial Intelligence Cannot Be Stopped

This paper investigates the structural reason why humanity continues to accelerate artificial intelligence development, despite widespread awareness of its existential risks. Applying Judgemental Philosophy, we argue that the problem is not one of knowledge or intent, but of judgemental displacement—a condition in which the Judgemental Triad (Constructivity, Coherence, Resonance) is externally dislocated and structurally unpossessed. Al becomes a field of judgement without return, where no subject can coherently own or halt the trajectory. We conclude that progress, when stripped of resonance, becomes self-perpetuating—and unjudgeable.