AI Won’t Just Eat Your Job. It’s Coming for Democracy Next.

If you thought AI would just take our jobs, wait until it hijacks political movements, breaks the courts, and radicalizes democracy into chaos, one chatbot at a time.

Forget AGI; slow-burn AI might be the real powder keg. In a future shaped by medium-paced AI integration, economic winners and losers will split politically. Capitalists and blue-collar workers embracing automation, while liberal professionals revolt.

I see this not just as a tech disruption, but as a global social stress test:

• Left-leaning students and workers protest job loss and AI bias.
• Conservatives weaponize AI for deregulation and culture war gains.
• Courts and public services buckle under AI-generated spam.

Tech firms face revolt from within, and AI safety researchers will be attacked as either corporate shills or political saboteurs. The real question isn’t “how do we align AI?”—it’s “how do we align ourselves?” Are we prepared to lead in the storm, or be swept up by it?

In times of exponential change, neutrality is a strategy, and a risk. As this cultural arms race unfolds, what role do you see for leadership that defends both intelligence and integrity?

Read the full article on LessWrong.

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