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Existential Risk of Totalitarianism

One existential risk, comparable to others like AI or climate change, is a one-world totalitarian government.
Fictional accounts of such a dystopia pre-WWI depicted leaders hypnotizing masses, but post-WWII, the narrative shifts to fear-mongering about other risks.
A totalitarian world government may arise from the very act of trying to prevent other perceived existential threats.
This could manifest through global compute governance or cultural policing against heterodox ideas, all enforced by a powerful global entity.
Such a scenario could be even more concerning than the threats it aims to prevent.

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