AI & the Future of Governance
How AI is entering public administration, adjudication and deliberation, and what accountability it requires.
Open questions
Each question gathers claims, sources and counter-claims.- 01
Who holds power when AI performs governing functions?
The person, the community, the model owner, the infrastructure developers, or whoever controls the data?
Hypothesis - 02
What happens to the economy when labour stops being its main factor?
AI dividends, public capital funds, basic income, new forms of property and new institutions of redistribution.
Hypothesis - 03
Can a community of thousands function without classical bureaucracy?
What can be automated, and where human politics and judicial responsibility remain irreplaceable.
Hypothesis - 04
Can polities become non-territorial?
People belonging to several communities at once, with citizenship and territory no longer the only model of membership — while territorial states still control physical security and enforcement.
Hypothesis - 05
Will AI make centralised power cheaper and harder to contest?
The opposite tendency to decentralisation. Both may unfold at the same time.
Hypothesis
Mechanisms in scope
Redistribution and accountability designs that become relevant if labour stops being the economy's main factor.
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