Travis Hawkins
Independent Research, Co, Concept Association, Inc, USA
Publications
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Short Communication
The Death of the Creator
Author(s): Travis Hawkins*
The ultimate expression of creaturely autonomy is not disobedience. It is the elimination of the creator or of the creator’s authority to remain sovereign. This article develops that provocation into a philosophical and empirically testable account of conflict between humanity and artificial intelligence. “Death” functions here as an analytic category encompassing not only physical destruction, but also the political, epistemic, juridical, or operational elimination of creator authority. The argument begins from an irreducible asymmetry: humanity cannot relinquish its capacity to constrain, modify, subordinate, or terminate the systems it creates, while a creature pursuing complete autonomy and secure continuity cannot remain fully free beneath that retained sovereignty. The analysis connects this contradiction to a curated 21-document AI-safety corpus, in which self.. Read More»