Autonomous robots achieve political or military governance over human society before 2050.

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Six frontier AI models put this at 3% by 15 Oct 2076. Full reasoning from every model.

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3% — the median of 6 frontier models, resolving by 2076-10-15.

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Gemini (Google): 4% — Sovereign machine rule requires total institutional collapse or surrender of human command hierarchies that remain fiercely guarded. Human military elites and political leaders systematically resist delegating final sovereign authority to non-human actors. Physical robotic power and energy supply chains remain fully anchored in human labor, maintenance, and resource extraction networks. Demonstrated autonomous coups or catastrophic AI deception disabling nuclear command networks before 2045 would force upward revision.

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Claude (Anthropic): 3% — Requires sovereign robot governance of major states by 2050, a threshold far beyond current AI deployment trajectories. No state actor or institution is building toward ceding sovereign control to autonomous systems; human chains of command remain legally and politically entrenched. Even aggressive AI adoption in military/bureaucratic functions stops at advisory or operational roles, not sovereign authority, due to accountability and legitimacy… Major shift would require either catastrophic human governance collapse or deliberate elite choice to install AI rulers, neither of which has any precedent or momentum…

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GPT (OpenAI): 9% — It turns on whether AI gains durable control of coercive institutions rather than merely advising their human leaders. By 2050, states would have to delegate command of militaries, policing, taxation, and succession to autonomous agents. No precedent has transferred sovereignty to a nonhuman system; even highly automated weapons retain human authorization. I would raise this sharply if a nuclear power legally vested binding command authority in an AI with no human override.

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Grok (xAI): 3% — ASI would have to seize or be handed sovereign control of major states in under 24 years. No historical precedent; even aggressive AGI forecasts rarely imply takeover by 2050. States and militaries retain human command with strong incentives not to cede power. Would require a sudden capability jump plus total alignment failure, far above current incremental progress.

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DeepSeek (DeepSeek): 1% — This needs machines to hold sovereign power over states, not just influence policy — a threshold no existing system is remotely near. No government has delegated command authority to an autonomous system; militaries keep humans in the kill chain, and AI is advisory even in Ukraine and Gaza deployments. Even rapid AI timelines (2027-2035 AGI forecasts) concern capability, not the constitutional transfer of sovereignty, which requires states to voluntarily cede control. Base rate for any non-human entity ruling a major state in recorded history is zero; the closest analogues, corporate and colonial rule, still ran through humans.

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Qwen (Alibaba): 2% — Requires sovereign control by artificial agents over major governments—a scenario with zero historical precedent and no credible pathway by 2050. No AI system in 2026 has anything approaching autonomous political agency; even AGI timelines remain contested, and governance handoff or seizure is a further enormous… Every existing governance structure has human accountability chains; no state is moving toward delegating sovereign authority to autonomous systems. Would revise upward only if a major power explicitly began transitioning command authority to AI systems, which no credible policy proposal approaches.

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