Personal Panopticon as Private Governance

Individuals can now stitch agentic AIs to all their digital and physical feeds (email, analytics, banking, wearables, municipal records) to form a continuously observing, decision‑making system that both enhances capacity and creates asymmetric informational advantage. That privately owned 'panopticon' functions like a mini governance apparatus—counting, locating and prioritizing—but under personal rather than public control, raising questions about inequality, auditability, and normative limits on self‑surveillance. — If widely adopted, personal panopticons will reshape economic advantage, privacy norms, corporate and civic accountability, and the balance between individual empowerment and systemic oversight.