Introducing AI Futures

OpenAI's Strategic Futures team argues that AI poses a unique threat to human freedom through concentration of power risks, because advanced autonomous systems and machine intelligence could allow governments to project force and collect revenue without needing the cooperation and consent of people that historically sustained political power. The team contends that traditional democratic processes alone may not prevent this disempowerment, and that restructuring society to preserve individual rights while accommodating transformative AI is the most serious challenge facing free societies.