AI agents overwhelm "rights-bearing" liberal institutions
anselm · x · 2026-08-28
A blog post from the Cosmos Institute argues that AI agents are dismantling liberal institutions. It posits that these institutions remained viable because exercising rights required citizen effort, naturally pruning demand. As agents shrink this cost to near zero, organizations face a surge in requests matching their formal promises, leading to institutional collapse.
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