Liberal democracy is the meeting place of Conservatism, Socialism and Liberalism where neither of the three ideologies exclusively predominate but rather rub up against each other and deconstruct one another. Liberal democracy is impossible without conservatism and its preservation of values, tradition and order without which liberal democracy itself, including the welfare state cannot exist.
Societal change has always been driven and determined by technological development and there has ever since the beginning of the industrial revolution been an exponential acceleration in technological change, meaning therefore also exponentially accelerated societal change.
The question of conservatism in the age of artificial intelligence is an essential one as conservatism may currently either erode liberal democracy or preserve it or a combination of both. Since the beginning of the 21st century there has been an erosion of liberal democracy in almost all liberal democracies with many not surviving as liberal democracies and this often being due to unhinged conservatism. Yet, conservatism is also a healthy preservative force in many liberal democracies in protecting the liberal democratic order and the liberal democratic regime itself. However, the introduction of Artificial Super Intelligence (ASI) will mean dizzying technological change and therefore also dizzying societal change. The sheer pace will be confusing and so maintaining the best traditions of liberal democracy will be a challenge as opposed to descending into reactionary authoritarianism which is the present trend throughout the commonwealth of liberal democracy which may even accelerate in response to the dizzying change in the age of ASI.
With ASI we will see the return of socialism because in the age of abundance there will be BUI (Basic Universal Income) and the welfare state will become entirely affordable. However, the preservation of liberal democracy in the age of dizzying change will necessarily become the essential task for conservatism.
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