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Governance in
a post-agentic
world
What is government for when every person has agents acting on their behalf and advanced systems can produce much more of what people need?
that makes abundance fair and free.
The conversation
Who distributes
the future?
A post-agentic society may contain billions of personal agents, constantly monitoring the world and making decisions in accordance with their owners' requirements. Government could become less about representing people occasionally and more about coordinating the agents that represent them continuously.
If energy, production and care become abundant, government would still need to ensure that the benefits flow on: access, infrastructure, rights, safety and the distribution of resources. Abundance does not remove politics. It changes what politics is about.
Source boundary: this is a developing philosophical proposal, not a claim about current governments or current AI capability.
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Talking prompts
What is government for after scarcity?
Can agents govern together?
Who owns the abundance?
How is access distributed?
How do we protect dissent?
What should remain human?