# Act IV — Who is in charge now



You are running your workflows through a bunch of AI agents on a cloud provider.

Suddenly, something is wrong.

Who are you going to call?

A person, an organization, open source, or the agent itself?

None of them can tell you.

Who is really in control?



- [Technology Is Power Leverage](https://digitalinfrastructures.nl/book/act4-power/tech-is-leverage/)

- [Introduction to Power](https://digitalinfrastructures.nl/book/act4-power/intro-power/)

- [The moral necessity of talking about power](https://digitalinfrastructures.nl/book/act4-power/ethics-of-power/) — Power has a bad reputation, but no group survives without exercising it — from combat leadership to IETF standards, understanding it precedes resisting abuse.

- [Positions of Power in IT](https://digitalinfrastructures.nl/book/act4-power/positions-of-power-it/)

- [Power Flows](https://digitalinfrastructures.nl/book/act4-power/power-mediation/)

- [Multiparty Promises](https://digitalinfrastructures.nl/book/act4-power/promise-multiparty/)

- [Where the buck stops](https://digitalinfrastructures.nl/book/act4-power/buck-stops/)

- [Governance over IT, an example](https://digitalinfrastructures.nl/book/act4-power/governance-example/)

- [Why Organization Size Determines Who You Trust](https://digitalinfrastructures.nl/book/act4-power/org-size-matters/) — Below 150 people you know who to trust by name. Above it, Dunbar's number kicks in — trust gives way to roles, processes, and bureaucracy.

- [How Software Spreads](https://digitalinfrastructures.nl/book/act4-power/software-dissemination/)

- [Disruptive Technologies](https://digitalinfrastructures.nl/book/act4-power/powershift-disruption/)

- [Who made podcasting big?](https://digitalinfrastructures.nl/book/act4-power/the-tipping-point-for-podcasting/)

- [International Actors](https://digitalinfrastructures.nl/book/act4-power/international-actors/)

- [Digital Autonomy: the Actors](https://digitalinfrastructures.nl/book/act4-power/digital-autonomy-the-actors/)

- [Power plays between governments and big corporations](https://digitalinfrastructures.nl/book/act4-power/dig-autonomy-plays/)