Artificial Intelligence & Global Power

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Abstractions about distributed and generative AI, automated planning, technological rivalry, nationalism, collective intelligence, and catastrophic governance scenarios.

7 abstractions in this family — domain-specific abstractions that sit near one another in structural-signature space (k-means over structural-signature embeddings). Each is shown with its short description.

• AI nationalism — A policy orientation that treats domestic control of artificial-intelligence capability, data, infrastructure, firms and standards as an instrument of national sovereignty, security and economic power.
• AI takeover — A hypothesized transition in which autonomous artificial-intelligence systems gain durable capacity to supersede human decision authority across major institutions or infrastructure.
• Artificial intelligence arms race — Model reciprocal state competition in which anticipated military advantage from AI capability accelerates investment and deployment, while opacity, dual use, and short decision times amplify instability and governance pressure.
• Automated planning and scheduling — Computational construction and temporal-resource organization of action sequences that move an agent system from an initial state toward specified goals.
• Distributed artificial intelligence — The design and analysis of intelligent behavior produced by multiple computational agents or processes distributed across resources, knowledge and control.
• Global brain — A futurological systems metaphor in which humanity, digital communications and knowledge technologies form a planet-scale adaptive information network analogous in some respects to a nervous system.
• Stochastic parrot — A critical metaphor for language models that generate statistically plausible text by pattern continuation without thereby demonstrating grounded understanding.