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When Knowledge Requires Permission: Artificial Intelligence, Epistemic Asymmetry, and Institutional Power

Author(s) Dr. Elias Rubenstein
Country United States
Abstract This article examines the transformation of knowledge access from a formally open activity into a permission-dependent process mediated by states, corporations, universities, professional institutions, digital platforms, and artificial intelligence systems. It argues that knowledge, inquiry, comprehension, research, and access to lawful information must be distinguished from harmful conduct. The central legal and philosophical claim is that institutions may regulate concrete acts such as violence, fraud, coercion, privacy violations, unlawful acquisition, conspiracy, attempt, and direct operational participation, but they possess no general authority to prohibit knowledge as knowledge or to restrict adult inquiry merely because information may be misused. The article develops the concepts of epistemic sovereignty, institutional knowledge restriction, access-layer censorship, synthetic censorship, epistemic asymmetry, corporate epistemic power, research-question conditioning, and forced epistemic migration. It then applies these concepts to artificial intelligence-mediated access control, market concentration, state outsourcing, geopolitical knowledge restriction, research obstruction, historical framing, education, and alternative infrastructures. The article concludes that freedom of expression and the right to participate in science remain incomplete unless adults retain meaningful access to lawful knowledge, transparent sources, plural systems, and practical avenues of epistemic exit.
Keywords artificial intelligence, epistemic sovereignty, knowledge restriction, censorship, freedom of inquiry, epistemic asymmetry, institutional power, access to information, right to science
Discipline Sociology > Administration / Law / Management
Published In Volume 4, Issue 4, July-August 2026
Published On 2026-07-19
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