{
  "id": 16194,
  "url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.03904",
  "title": "Why do we need social singularity? A mechanism-based critique of gradual scenarios in AI existential-risk discourse",
  "summary": "arXiv:2608.03904v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper critiques recent gradual and cumulative AI existential-risk scenarios, arguing that, despite their substantive contributions, they remain insufficiently sociologically specified. In particular, these scenarios lack a reflexive perspective, retain a largely technologically deterministic structure, and underestimate the role of collective agency and other social processes. As a result, they also discount the possibility of major social con",
  "authors": "Petr O. Jedlicka",
  "category": "research",
  "topics": "safety-alignment",
  "orgs": null,
  "regions": null,
  "published_at": "2026-08-05T04:00:00.000Z",
  "fetched_at": "2026-08-05T05:10:44.550Z",
  "source_slug": "arxiv-cscy",
  "source_name": "arXiv cs.CY",
  "source_homepage": "https://arxiv.org/list/cs.CY/recent",
  "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/16194",
  "original_url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.03904",
  "evidence_status": "source-only",
  "attribution": "via ethics.ai"
}