Bounded Sovereignty and the Control Tax: Pricing AI Oversight When the Deployer Does Not Own the Model

Abstract

arXiv:2608.19216v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: AI control research asks how to deploy models safely even when they may be misaligned, but many control protocols assume that the deployer can instrument the model and its surrounding pipeline. That assumption often fails for regulated organisations using frontier models through APIs or managed endpoints, where the deployer may control the business process but not the model weights, serving infrastructure, internal traces, update process, or full i