OpenAI has launched AI Futures, a new research blog focused on how free societies can preserve individual rights and agency as transformative AI reshapes power.

Dean Ball’s Strategic Futures team argues that concentration of power may be the largest long-run AI risk.

Autonomous systems could let states project force without cooperative soldiers. Automated bureaucracies and data-center-generated wealth could make governments less dependent on human labor, taxation and consent.

Regardless of what one thinks of it, it clearly shows one thing once again: we are on the threshold of a societal transformation the likes of which we have never seen before.