Modern AI dazzles with fluent answers—but too often it asks us to trust a story we can’t verify. We get results that can’t be replayed, provenance we can’t inspect, and “consent” that never really traveled with the data. That isn’t a technical nuisance; it’s a loss of human agency. Shared Object Networking (SON) 2.0 is a different path: start with rights, then encode them as rules every system must honor. The paper argues that identity should be a deliberate act, consent must be specific and bounded, explanations must rest on artifacts (not anecdotes), revision should add new commitments (not rewrite … Continue reading Shared Object Networking