Scientific Definition
Concentration risk on a single AI provider.
Plain-English Definition
Concentration risk on a single AI provider.
Feynman Explanation
Diversify before you wish you had.
Core Principle
Concentration risk on a single AI provider.
Mechanisms
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Inputs (Triggers)
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Outputs (Behaviors)
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Behavioral Signature
Diversify before you wish you had.
Examples
- Enterprises with everything riding on one foundation model.
- Strategic risk management.
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Famous Experiments
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Design Principles
- Multi-model architectures. Abstraction layers. Portability assumptions.
Measurement Approaches
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Evidence
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The Perverse Incentive Lens™
How this behavior is exploited — and how to redesign around it.
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Interactive Mini Network
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Knowledge Graph Neighbors
Auto-linked to the rest of the Human Behavior Taxonomy by family, domain, dimension, and shared keywords.
Augmentation strategy vs. substitution strategy.
Stages of organizational AI capability.
AI strategy = decisions about which capabilities to build and where.
Augment when judgment matters. Automate when scale matters.
Strategic choice on AI capability sourcing.
AI capability outpacing organizational ability to use it.
Specialized training on domain data.
Open-weight vs. API-only models.
When the agent acts, who's responsible?
Categorizing AI use cases by risk level.
Systematic skew in model behavior across groups.
Operating economics shaped by per-token pricing.