Telocracy: a proposal for AI to hold societal institutions accountable to their purposes
edelwax · x · 2026-11-04
Edelwax publishes "Telocracy." The origin story: at 15, they realized teachers weren't in charge—they were just as oppressed by school bureaucracy as students. "Who benefits? No one." That sparked a lasting obsession with why social systems diverge from their purposes. After a year of conversations with legal theorists, philosophers, AI policy people, and economists, the proposal is out: telocracy, a vision where AI holds institutions accountable to their purposes—with the bonus that such a society would also handle powerful AI well. A substantive piece on institutional design for the AI era.
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