Can Liberal Democracy Survive AGI? (with Sam Hammond)

Sam Hammond is is Chief Economist at the Foundation for American Innovation. He discusses:

• How collapsing transaction costs could push towards privatising the nation-state
• The “distributed denial of service” problem for courts and regulators
• Why perfect enforcement of existing laws would be effectively totalitarian
• Estonia's government-as-API as a model for AI-era governance
• Whether 20th-century social democracy was a technological aberration
• Why post-AGI states might look more like Dubai than Denmark
• Mormons, religion, and social scaffolding for a post-scarcity world

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Read a full transcript here.

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