Alex Karp’s mass surveillance and autonomous weapons software empire has just released a blueprint for an American techno-fascist, techno-feudalist state powered by advanced AI.
The 22-point document combines the enthusiasm of the 1930s American Technocracy movement with elements eerily reminiscent of 20th century fascist ideologists, and calls for:
🔴 Making the Silicon Valley “engineering elite” the new aristocracy, obliged “to participate in the defense of the nation,” and being given more of a say in advancing the overarching “grand narrative”
🔴 The rejection of “vacant and hollow pluralism” and “decadent” consumer iPhone culture
🔴 Recognition of the “limits” of “soft power,” and celebrating “hard power,” which “in this century will be built on software”
🔴 Framing the race for AI weapons debate as an ‘if we don’t build it, our enemies will’, using technological inevitability as a moral cover
🔴 Dubbing national service “a universal duty,” and calling for the end of all-volunteer armies
🔴 Calling for the rearmament of Germany and Japan
🔴 Contemptuously framing the
🔴 Heaping jingoistic praise for America’s “progressive values” and supposed indispensability to “an extraordinarily long peace” post-WWII, and touting the superiority of Western culture, which has “produced wonders” while “others have proven middling, and worse, regressive and harmful”
A critique of decadent, hollow pluralism, the need for a new elite promising “the solution,” demands for national sacrifice, rejection of liberal constraints, technological determinism, ranked cultures and a rewriting of the post-WWII order. We’ve seen this movie before…
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