Aligned AI, safe and powerful and controllable, in the hands of those who use it to entrench their own position. Labs optimize for profit, governments for national dominance, individuals for personal power. The technology works perfectly for the people pointing it. And the delegation ratchet (each handoff to AI harder to reverse) ensures permanence: once governance, infrastructure, and daily life all run through captured AI, there's no taking it back. The most powerful tool in history, pointed inward.