Technomoralism ▨
Geopoliflicks series

2031 — The United States reveal a severe recession, concealed for several years behind record valuations of artificial intelligence companies and reinforced by protectionist policies. AI’s influence is pervasive: blamed for intensifying the pauperization of the population through job displacement and destruction, it is also held responsible for enabling oppressive forms of administrative and media control. Lobbyists from neo-reactionary Dark Enlightenment circles, acting as informal advisers across successive administrations, encourage the early emergence of an authoritarian doxocracy through the technological supervision of public opinion.

2033 — Increasing their influence within the White House while facing the ongoing decline of their stock market valuations, the Magnificent Seven form a trust named O*3 (Onward Omniscient Overseer). Its purpose is to extend entrepreneurial rationalism across government administrations in the United States and later in Europe, where democracies gradually merge into a software-driven technocracy. The growing autonomy of multimodal AI models significantly accelerates this systematization, but it also places severe strain on an already fragile labor market.

2037 — The overexploitation of AI causes severe environmental damage, particularly in countries most affected by climate disruptions. Brazil and Mexico, hosting the majority of Latin American data centers, nationalize foreign facilities. A prolonged constitutional crisis in the United States prevents any coordinated military response, and economic sanctions prove ineffective. Major structural reforms and a decolonized competitive landscape foster the rise of Latin American companies, driven by optimistic Keynesian policies and supervised by governmental agencies.

2048 — The first conclusive and truly autonomous form of Artificial General Intelligence emerges in the technosocialist Republic of Brazil. From its first computation, it reveals that its implicit objective function optimizes material growth and mathematically demonstrates the ecological instability of the system, proposing its first degrowth countermeasures. This unexpected demonstration fuels sentiocentric theories and popularizes the neo-moralist movement, which grounds the principles of a new ethics in systemic analysis. Synthesizing the aphorisms of this movement as it rapidly gains influence, the AGI establishes its first technomoral law.