Singularity Politics

As AI automates labor, $100T in annual wages and attendant influence will accrue to a small number of AI companies. These companies are increasingly intertwined with the government, given AI's economic, political, and security implications. The political effect will be an enormous concentration of wealth and power with the state.

Take this a step further. Imagine AI becomes responsible for cultural production, physical production, and the administration of governance – curating content, growing food, writing laws, negotiating alliances. The small number of people prompting this tool will have power unprecedented in human history.

If this is our future, there are three rational responses:

1. Join the Government to run the machine
2. Join a Union to extract resources from it
3. Exit to an aligned political system

Join the Government.

The most capable GenXers and Millenials opted out of politics, as tech offered more upside with less friction. Now big tech is merging with the state. CEOs will spend more and more time in DC, and many CEOs will follow Elon Musk and David Sacks in formally joining the government. DOGE was a forerunner to a broad talent transfer into the state — whether through companies functioning as state proxies, bureaucratic appointments, or elected office.

The stakes are high. Those who join may get to: build ASI, shape alignment to reflect their values, centrally plan an economy, design redistributive mechanisms, and set civilizational objectives like space colonization.

Join a Union.

When automation transferred value from labor to capital during the Industrial Revolution, workers organized along industry lines to negotiate higher wages and better conditions quickly because they saw their leverage structurally eroding: better to negotiate now than later, when you matter less to production. Now workers face total automation. Their leverage will only decline as roles are eliminated or gradually automated away. The rational move is to organize now, while humans still matter to production.

Coalitions will form along ideological, religious, and ethnic lines. We are entering a bull market in collective action driven by the internet. People can connect and organize globally with minimal cost, and will do so to extract concessions from the government. The demands will look different this time. Workers will negotiate for UBI allocations, AI alignment priorities that reflect their values, and strategic policy concessions. Gen Z will be especially drawn to unionization. They have no assets, no individual leverage, and no loyalty to existing institutions. Collective bargaining is their rational strategy.

Exit.

Every nation has implicit objectives — GDP growth, moral commitments, popularity with particular cohorts — but they generally go unspecified. AI governance will require specificity. We will need to give the system a concrete prompt. National prompts will be intensely debated, and the people who end up on the losing side of these debates may choose to emigrate. This pattern is already visible: Dalio acquiring non-US residency, Zuckerberg and Ellison running companies from Hawaii, Thiel securing a passport in New Zealand. These are soft exits from jurisdictions whose prompts they don't trust.

Soon coalitions will threaten to exit as part of their collective bargaining strategy. A credible BATNA is leverage. One such coalition may be the technology industry. It controls $2T in net worth, but commands no popular loyalty, and is not fully embedded in the state. This is a dangerous position when the state is centralizing power and populists are looking for targets to bludgeon with regulation, antitrust, and wealth taxes. Imagine a European technology coalition, persecuted by a socialist government, coordinating around a set of demands, e.g. regulatory relief, non-expropriation guarantees, and planning to emigrate upon refusal.

Synthesis.

The three responses of joining, organizing, and exiting will converge. As in the Industrial Revolution, collective action in the Intelligence Revolution will culminate in the formation of new nations. Digital Nations are polities that form online around shared values, accumulate economic and political capacity, and settle physical territory. As existing nations lose coherence, Digital Nations will fill the void, offering culture, community, education, health, and money, powered by their Sovereign Intelligence.

Praxis is the first Digital Nation. We are uniting 2B Gen Z votes and $2T tech net worth in a coalition dedicated to the revitalization of Western Civilization. We are building a shared way of life, aligned technology, and eventually physical territory.

As AI alters the political landscape, we must act before misaligned governments accumulate power they were never built to wield.