The Leviathan State Submits to Technological Singularity
– Technological singularity is already reshaping state power structures.
– Automation redefines public spending and reduces traditional bureaucracy.
– The State balances between technological efficiency and rising social demands.
The Inevitable Changes
The Leviathan State Submits to Technological Singularity
Technological singularity is a moment that is already occurring.
Artificial intelligence (AI) surpasses collective human intelligence, triggering an explosion of intelligence, an exponential change in knowledge accumulation, and exponential technological growth.
A point of no return where machines autonomously redesign themselves, becoming incomprehensible to human beings.
AI reaches a level of continuous self-improvement, far exceeding human capabilities.
Technological advancement is so rapid that the future of humanity becomes impossible to predict.
Singularity is changing the human destiny through the fusion of biology with artificial intelligence.
This theoretical concept, according to experts, is already occurring in concrete aspects due to the current speed of AI development.
And if any doubt remains, it is enough to observe the information we receive about how power conflicts are evolving; they no longer follow a human strategic logic, but one designed by AI.
And since war is the prelude to the application of cutting-edge technology, this acceleration already visible, as seen in the ports of Shanghai, will inevitably reach the State, politics, and direct democracy.
Let us examine the inevitable changes that technology will impose on the size and spending of the State:
The “Dematerialization” of Bureaucracy
The State will no longer be measured by the number of buildings or employees behind a counter. Full digitalization allows for a drastic reduction in operating costs.
Process automation means that administrative tasks (management of fines, licenses, records) are executed by algorithms.
This reduces the need for a massive administrative payroll.
Blockchain is a decentralized, immutable, and shared digital registry that securely stores data through cryptography, without intermediaries.
It functions as a distributed ledger across multiple nodes, where each block of information is linked to the previous one, ensuring transparency and resistance to manipulation.
Digital identity and the decentralization of records will allow the State to be physically “smaller” but more efficient in data validation.
The Revenue Dilemma: Mobile Tax Bases
The political system will have to redesign public spending because its traditional sources of income are changing due to delocalization.
Remote work and the platform economy require rethinking how labor and capital are taxed beyond outdated geographic frameworks.
The multiplication of cybersecurity spending to prevent the hacking of essential data means that defense spending will no longer be limited to drones and missiles, but will shift toward digital infrastructure and the intelligence required to protect it.
The national security budget has moved from muscle to bits.
From Traditional Welfare to a Technological Safety Net
This is the point of greatest political friction between the traditional and the singular.
Automation and AI displace jobs, forcing the State to rethink its spending on social protection and adaptation to the new economy.
Basic income or transitional subsidies: the political system cannot avoid the urgent debate on direct income transfers when technology reduces the demand for human labor in key sectors, and when the supply of work in the form of products and services crosses borders almost imperceptibly.
At the same time, decisions become urgent and imperative. Waste, corruption, and opacity are no longer acceptable in optimizing public resources, since their operation is increasingly designed and monitored by AI.
Investment in “Reskilling”: Public spending on education shifts from a static model (one profession and one degree for life) to continuous re-education, increasing investment in agile and cost-effective learning platforms.
Personalization of Public Services (Precision Spending)
Thanks to Big Data, the State must move from “one-size-fits-all” policies to individualized services, directly impacting budgets.
Preventive Healthcare: The use of AI and wearables—devices integrated into clothing or worn as accessories (watches, bracelets, glasses, rings) that continuously monitor bodily data—will enable healthcare spending focused on prevention rather than reaction, reducing hospital costs in the long term but increasing technological implementation costs.
Efficient Urbanism (Smart Cities): Infrastructure spending must become more efficient (less waste of resources, energy, and water), allowing the State to manage larger cities with proportionally fewer resources, guided not by theoretical planning but by proven AI-designed strategies.
Summary of the Transformation:
The size of the State is no longer measured by the number of officials or buildings, but by technological processing capacity and connectivity.
Public spending based on fixed multi-year budgets becomes dynamic, driven by real-time data.
Political action is no longer reactive to social problems, but preventive through predictive analysis.
We must consider that the State is no longer a rigid political governance system, but a supra-human socio-economic design capability that transcends borders.
The great political challenge: Technology enables a smaller and more efficient governance model, but social pressure from job automation will require much higher spending on subsidies.
A paradox between operational efficiency and social responsibility.
AI monitoring of public spending determines the precise point of efficiency and effectiveness, controlled by open real-time information and direct democracy.
Borders will be defined by optimization designed by technology.
Let us delve into a quantum time that is already unfolding.
Understanding these dynamics is essential to grasp the emerging global order.