#239 – Rose Hadshar on why automating human labour will break our political system
Published: March 17, 2026
Duration: 2:14:08
The most important political question in the age of advanced AI might not be who wins elections. It might be whether elections continue to matter at all.
That’s the view of Rose Hadshar, researcher at Forethought, who believes we could see extreme, AI-enabled power concentration without a coup or dramatic ‘end of democracy’ moment.
She foresees something more insidious: an elite group with access to such powerful AI capabilities that the normal mechanisms for checking elite power — law, elections, public pressure, the threat of strikes — cease to have much effect. Those mechanisms could continue to exist o...