Extinction-Level Capitalism

# Summary The author argues that AI is inherently political technology that will gradually undermine liberal democracy by amplifying existing trends toward capital concentration, even if it improves material well-being in the near term. This erosion requires no additional conditions like malicious actors or AI malfunction—it will occur through AI's normal operation—making it a more urgent risk than commonly discussed extinction scenarios. The author, a lawyer and designer whose work was used in AI training datasets, draws on political theorist Langdon Winner's framework to explain how technologies can have built-in political effects independent of their creators' intentions.