It looks to me like AI will enable extreme power concentration by default.

For example, suppose we have a world with centrally planned economy where humanoid robots outnumber humans. And also suppose the government has taken ultimate control of these. Seems like it would be essentially impossible for any civil uprising to overthrow such a system.

Or if you prefer less sci-fi, look at the trajectory of power consolidation in corporate America over the last five decades.

In the short term, the “good guys” we need are antitrust regulators. Yeah, they got sent home.

Without concerted action against it, people with power have better chances of increasing their power than people without power. Power naturally accumulates into small groups. Empirically it seems less likely that people with power are particularly altruistic, so some form of totalitarian control appears the likely outcome.