Algocracy: Government for the New World Order
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Algocracy means "rule by algorithm," and, as James details in today's important episode of The Corbett Report podcast, it's a word that we would do well to become acquainted with. And, as you will discover in this presentation, algocracy is being seeded into the public consciousness right now by the very same Big Tech broligarchs who are now in a position to implement their plan for locking down society in an AI-run dystopian surveillance nightmare.
TRANSCRIPT
MARC ANDREESEN: This is my belief and what I've been trying to tell people in Washington, which is: If you thought social media censorship was bad, this has the potential to be a thousand times worse.
And the reason is, social media is important, but at the end of the day, it's "just people talking to each other." AI is going to be the control layer on everything. Right? So AI is going to be the control layer on how your kids learn at school. It's going to be the control layer on who gets loans. It's going to be the control layer on: does your house open when you come to the front door? It's going to be the control layer on everything. Right?
And so if that gets wired into the political system the way that the banks did and the way that social media did, we are in for a very bad future. And that's a big thing that we've been trying to prevent—is to keep that from happening.
SOURCE:
Joe Rogan Experience #2234 - Marc Andreessen
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ye8MOfxD5nU&t=9410s&pp=2AHCSZACAQ%3D%3D
JAMES CORBETT: Welcome back, friends. Welcome back to The Corbett Report. I'm James Corbett of corbettreport.com, coming to you, as always, from the sunny climes of western Japan, here in March of 2025, with Episode 473 of The Corbett Report podcast, "Algocracy: Government for the New World Order."
Those chilling opening words portraying what a government by algorithm might look like come to us via Marc Andreessen on The Joe Rogan Experience podcast, where Marc is warning us about the possibilities of not just social media censorship and control, but AI censorship and control, and how much worse that will be when AI is a layer on everything we do and everything we use.
Now, alright, let's start today's exploration—which will no doubt get into why I do not trust Marc Andreessen to keep us safe from the coming AI technocratic overlords—by defining our terms.
Probably this is a new term for most people in the audience: "algocracy." This is a term that we can work out from etymology, if nothing else. Kratos, of course, being the Greek word for "rule," which is where we derive, for example, "democracy": demos kratos—rule by the public.
Or, for example, "autocracy"—the autocrat. That's rule by "self"—self-rule. Well, in that case, of course, referring to the self-rule as in rule by a dictator, who rules by himself. Or, I suppose, there's "kleptocracy"—rule by thieves. Or, as I hope my listeners are aware by now, "kakistocracy"—rule by the worst or the most evil, which may be an apt description of governing systems generally, but at any rate. . .
"Algocracy," then, is rule by algorithm. And if you think that such a thing is some far-off, weird fantasy that . . . who on earth is even talking about? well, may I present to you . . . oh, I don't know, . . . a completely different clip from The Joe Rogan Experience with Marc Andreessen.
JOE ROGAN: I've said publicly—and I'm half-joking—that we need AI government. It sounds crazy to say, but instead of having this, like, alpha chimpanzee that runs the tribe of humans, how about we have some, like, really logical, fact-based, you know, program that, you know, makes it, like, really reasonable and equitable in a way that we can all agree to. Let's govern things in that manner.
SOURCE: Joe Rogan Experience #2234 - Marc Andreessen
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ye8MOfxD5nU&t=1208s&pp=2AG4CZACAQ%3D%3D
Hmm. Curious. Yes, let me spell that out for anyone who didn't notice. Yes, that is the exact same pair of people—i.e., Marc Andreessen and Joe Rogan—who in the opening clip were warning about the dangers of a world of AI governance on top of every aspect of our lives being layered with AI. Isn't that a scary prospect? But, yes, that's the exact same pair who are now chortling about how it sounds crazy to say it, but we need AI government.
And, yep, instead of having, like, this alpha chimpanzee that runs the tribe of humans [chuckle], how about we have some really logical, fact-based, you know, program [yep!] that, you know, makes it really reasonable and equitable in a way that we can all agree to let's govern things in that manner.
Wow. Yeah, right. Okay, these are the guys that are going to save you from the AI nightmare of the future. Because don't worry, Andreessen and his team of technocratic crusaders are going to save you from that woke liberal AI and replace it with the cool Trumpian AI. Woohoo! Sign me up!
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