Predicting the Impact of AGI and Advanced Robots: A New Political-Economic System

Purpose: This paper examines how individual bargaining power may change if Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) and advanced robots become commercially available under the current political-economic system without fundamental institutional reform. Method: Using a conceptual political-economic analysis, the paper compares the industrial-era relationship among firms, governments, and individuals with a projected system in which AGI performs general cognitive labour and advanced robots perform broad physical labour at scale. Results: The analysis suggests that these technologies could weaken firms’ dependence on human labour and wage-funded consumption. If production is reorganized around machine systems, individuals may lose labour-market leverage, purchasing power, and effective political influence. This shift could produce a concentrated political-economic order in which corporate and elite power expands while democratic agency becomes increasingly formal rather than practical. Conclusion: The dystopian outcome described here is not inevitable, but it becomes more plausible if technological development proceeds without institutional redesign. The paper argues that economic rights, political rights, and human dignity need to be discussed as central questions of technological governance before path dependence hardens and individuals lose the bargaining power needed to defend their material security and political agency.