Adam Jones Blog
What is an AI-enabled oligarchy?
An AI-enabled oligarchy is where AI systems concentrate power in the hands of a few entities that are then able to effectively control the world. The kinds of entities where power might be concentrated towards are:
An authoritarian ruler
A ruler could seize and retain global power to lock the world into pretty terrible outcomes.4
One version of this could look like Nineteen Eighty-Four.They don’t need to already be a political or governmental figure, and also could be trying to do what they genuinely thought was in other people’s best interests.
