Could the models and institutions built in the next few decades permanently entrench one political order or conception of human flourishing?
Finnveden, Riedel and Shulman argue AGI could make regimes, institutions, and values persistent in a way nothing in history has been; skeptics reply that every past claim of permanence has drifted, and that persistence itself is the contested premise.
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The lock-in worry got an explicit call for researchers: value or power entrenchment that outlasts the institutions that create it is argued to be a neglected, high-impact area distinct from extinction risk, with concrete starting projects — an attempt to build a field around the question rather than restate it.
a situation where some feature of the world, typically a negative element of human culture, becomes stable for a long time (i.e., centuries, millenia, or longer).
The clearest 2026 argument that value and power lock-in is a neglected, high-impact research area distinct from extinction risk, with concrete starting projects — extending the AGI-and-lock-in agenda into a call for work.