Capability without maturity names a genuinely new problem of the AI ecology: capability can scale faster than the maturity, responsibility, and judgment needed to carry it. Because AI lets a person access competence without embodying it, someone can perform far beyond what they personally understand — and if AI lets them design something extraordinarily sophisticated or consequential, the question becomes what level of consequence are they actually qualified to carry?
This is the shadow of democratized capability: the same systems that give an individual extraordinary creative power can give them extraordinary destructive power. So the framework’s response is not to restrict standing, which stays universal, but to insist that jurisdiction over consequential capability cannot be:
Standing may be universal; jurisdiction over consequential capability cannot be.
An AI ecology therefore needs far more sophisticated graduated jurisdiction than an industrial one, because the gap between one person’s intention and society-scale consequence can become very small. Universal worth, bounded capability — held apart on purpose. See Power, Capability, and the State.