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Advanced AI will drive profound political and ideological conflict through 'ontological displacement'—the devaluation of human expertise and productive contribution as the basis of social worth—even before mass unemployment occurs. Novelty: ClaimNovelty.NOVEL_FINDING. Consensus alignment: ConsensusAlignment.ESTABLISHES_NEW_DIRECTION.

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To examine how advanced artificial intelligence destabilizes traditional foundations of human worth and authority, mapping the resulting ideological fractures and structural conflict risks.

September 8, 2026Open Access

The Post-Economic Human: Artificial Intelligence, Ontological Displacement, and the Ideological Foundations of Future Conflict

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KTKwan Hong TANUniversity of Suffolk

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Futures analysis demonstrates ontological displacement and legitimacy gaps in human societies, highlighting impending ideological conflicts over machine wealth and authority.

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To examine how advanced artificial intelligence destabilizes traditional foundations of human worth and authority, mapping the resulting ideological fractures and structural conflict risks.
Constructed an AI Ideological Conflict Framework integrating labour economics, meaningful-work theory, political behaviour, sacred-values research, and AI governance.
Conducted evidence-weighted horizon scanning, causal layered analysis, and two-axis scenario modeling to delineate four structural futures: Managed AI Capitalism, Humanist Social Dividend, Algorithmic Oligarchy, and Cybernetic Commonwealth.
Identified the transition regime—wherein employment remains culturally essential for dignity while cognitive labor depreciates economically—as the primary flashpoint for societal instability.
Determined that future ideological struggles will predominantly turn on two axes: the distribution of machine-generated economic surplus and the retention of human sovereign authority over superior artificial intelligences.
Proposed structural policy interventions, including decoupling social contribution from paid work, dispersing algorithmic rents, and establishing human sovereignty as a constitutional principle.

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Kwan Hong TAN (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a9fd75858e84d0ff5b45de8 https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22450660

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Futures analysis demonstrates ontological displacement and legitimacy gaps in human societies, highlighting impending ideological conflicts over machine wealth and authority.

The Post-Economic Human: Artificial Intelligence, Ontological Displacement, and the Ideological Foundations of Future Conflict

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