Published October 7, 2026 | Version 1.1

Maintenance AI: you keep ownership, you lose control

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  • 1. Cahiers de technopolitique

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Every predictive maintenance platform contract says the same thing: your data belongs to you. That is true, and it changes nothing. What is at stake is not the ownership of the raw material, but the ownership of what is drawn from it.

English version, translated by the author, of Cahiers de technopolitique no. 2 (French original: 10.5281/zenodo.23207203). Full text in open access: https://technopolitique.eu/cahiers/n2/en/.

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English version of Cahiers de technopolitique no. 2. The French original (10.5281/zenodo.22818645) is the reference text. Version 1.1 of 7 October 2026: every quotation, figure and attribution checked against its primary source; dates, figures, attributions and references corrected, cuts in quotations marked [...], and passages that the sources contradicted rectified. The previous version remains available, but this one is authoritative.

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