BYE BYE MISS AMERICAN PIE: DOGE, AI, and the End of Sovereignty

“It is like a weed, if you don’t remove the roots, it will grow back”. Elon Musk

“You see, the Tech Bros of Silicon Valley believe that the American Empire is on the verge of collapse. Silicon Valley wants to speed this up, but use the coming administration to create safe landing zones for them and their cash where they can also run their own governments. And what is so annoying about this is it makes me sound crazy.” Joanna Richards

“Even if Congress were motivated to fight back against Trump and Musk, or against a future president seeking to bulldoze the will of the legislature, the absolute power to command AI agents would make it easier to subvert legislative intent. Social-welfare programs, if automated with AI, could be redirected to systematically benefit one group and disadvantage another with a single prompt change…. Regulatory-enforcement agencies that monitor corporate behavior for malfeasance could turn their attention to, or away from, any given company on a whim”. Bruce Schneier and Nathan E. Sanders

“AI is more dangerous than, say, mismanaged aircraft design or production maintenance or bad car production, in the sense that it is, it has the potential — however small one may regard that probability, but it is non-trivial — it has the potential of civilization destruction”. Elon Musk