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Issue Scenario C 'Techno-Dictatorship Dystopia': big tech monopolises AGI amid climate and war crises

Summary

Scenario C pairs a technology-dominated era with a failed survival strategy and a wild era of conflict, with an inconsistency score of one. Technology alone advances while everything else fails, and AI becomes a tool of domination and control monopolised by a handful of big tech firms. Three global big tech companies dominate AI, artificial general intelligence arrives around 2040 under their control, and Korea becomes technologically dependent. By 2050 the top 10 percent monopolise AI while the rest fall into the status of digital serfs, and the total population drops below 30 million. Experts rated its plausibility at 2.99, likely if current big tech oligopoly and digital polarisation continue unchecked, but gave it a very low preference of 1.49.

Classification

Main topicAI & Computing
Region menusEast Asia Korea
Impactscope:country · geo_region:east_asia · country:KR
Time horizon11-30 years (2026-09-30)
Published2025-12-31
Last updated2026-10-01 17:42 KST

Evidence 8

Constituent trends 3

Directly linked signals 2

Relation types: constitutes · direct_urgent

Public id: fm-e6f5b3d58862