AI Could Turn Democracies Into Petrostates 27.9%
Foreign Policy - By Cullen Hendrix - 4/30/2026, 4:01 AM
Post Hoc (False Cause) 27.4% - Negativity Bias 18.8% - Ambiguity (Equivocation) 18.7%
High, especially youth, unemployment. Limited incentives to invest in education or health. Rule by a powerful, unaccountable elite. This is current petrostate reality. It could also be our AI future. Whether that future materializes hinges on how the gains from AI are distributed. If AI’s productivity-enhancing benefits are widely... more