Who will hold power when intelligence is no longer only human?
Polity Atlas studies how people organise life together, which institutions let them cooperate, and how technology is reshaping power and the economy — across every scenario, not just the one we might prefer.
A map of humanity's institutional experiments
Successes, failures, closures, contested cases and paper proposals — filterable by governance type, legal status, economy, autonomy and use of AI.
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Mechanisms, not slogans
The atlas is built from entities — concepts, mechanisms, projects, claims, evidence — and the typed links between them. Articles are views over that graph.
Open the knowledge graph →OECD countries using AI in at least one government function — versus those that report any evaluation of its results.
Technology is changing faster than institutions' capacity to assess it. Source: OECD Digital Government Outlook 2026 · ■ Established
Read the briefing →Three directions, done carefully
Every claim wears its status
AI agents collect, compare and flag. Editors verify. Nothing politically sensitive is published without review.
Read the methodology →- Established
- Documented facts with primary or authoritative sources
- Theory
- Scholarly theories and interpretations
- Disputed
- Contested claims, with both sides shown
- Hypothesis
- Experimental propositions awaiting tests
- Forecast
- Claims about the future, with horizon and author
From atlas to laboratory to infrastructure
- IAtlas of existing systemsHow humanity is organised now, and how it was organised before.
- IILaboratory of possible systemsDesign new institutions and test hypotheses against scenarios.
- IIIInfrastructure for institutional innovationAn open repository of versioned, reusable institutional components.
The Observatory digest
A fortnightly read on AI governance, post-labour economics and new polities. No hype, sources attached.