The Safe AI Marketplace: Toward Accountable Cognitive Infrastructure

The first paper (The Sovereign Prosthesis, Bouchard 2026) argued that localized AI with longitudinal context constitutes genuine cognitive extension. This paper argues the corollary: that an unaccountable AI market is a structurally unsafe one. AGI isn't coming next quarter, or next year. What is here, right now, is a proliferation of autonomous agents operating in a legal and ethical Wild West. OpenClaw shows us what that looks like when it scales. The Functional Personhood framework and cryptographic identity linking offer an alternative architecture: one in which safety isn't a constraint bolted onto the system from outside, but a structural property of the market itself.