Safety-Justified Technocratic Regime

A Safety-Justified Technocratic Regime is a technocratic governance system that centralizes political power under the pretext of mitigating existential risks through global surveillance and control mechanisms.

• AKA: Safetyist Technocracy, Risk-Justified Regime, Existential Risk Technocracy, Precautionary Principle Regime.
• Context:
  • It can typically enforce Compute Governance Rules through hardware control.
  • It can often promote Fear-Based Centralization via risk amplification.
  • It can typically implement Surveillance Infrastructure for behavior monitoring.
  • It can often justify Civil Liberty Restrictions through safety imperatives.
  • It can range from being a Mild Safety-Justified Technocratic Regime to being a Strict Safety-Justified Technocratic Regime, depending on its regulatory intensity.
  • It can range from being a AI Safety-Justified Technocratic Regime to being a Climate Safety-Justified Technocratic Regime, depending on its risk focus.
  • It can range from being a Democratic Safety-Justified Technocratic Regime to being an Authoritarian Safety-Justified Technocratic Regime, depending on its accountability level.
  • It can range from being a Transparent Safety-Justified Technocratic Regime to being an Opaque Safety-Justified Technocratic Regime, depending on its decision visibility.
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• Examples:
  • Pandemic Safety-Justified Technocratic Regime, such as:
    • Zero-COVID Lockdown Regime for infection control.
    • Vaccine Passport System for movement restriction.
  • Environmental Safety-Justified Technocratic Regime, such as:
    • Carbon Credit Regime for emission control.
    • Climate Emergency Declaration for economic intervention.
  • ...
• Counter-Examples:
  • Democratic Risk Management, which maintains public accountability.
  • Market-Based Safety Solution, which uses price signals.
  • Polycentric Risk Mitigation Framework, which avoids power concentration.
• See: Technocratic Antichrist, Existential Risk Centralization Mechanism, Fear Rhetoric Takeover Vector, AI-Enabled Knowledge Problem Resolution, Post-1969 Regulatory Stagnation, Soft Despotism, Safetyism.

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