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AI-Enabled Coups: How a Small Group Could Use AI to Seize Power

Tom Davidson · Lukas Finnveden · Rose Hadshar

AI that beats top experts at weapons design, strategy, persuasion, and cyber offence lets a lab executive, head of state, or military faction replace the many cooperating humans a coup has always needed with systems that are singularly loyal, secretly loyal, or exclusively theirs; once autonomous militaries and automated governments run on such systems, one person can order the seizure, and only rules, audits, shared access, and AI that refuses to help stand in the way.

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