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Original publication: https://kareemalkaseer.com/articles/the-humanist-and-machine-societies Aug 4, 2025

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The machine society is emerging, a dystopian society in which humans are replaceable and are allowed to exist in calculated numbers by fellow humans using machines. We seek to avert this eventuality and bring about the humanist society in which humanity prospers and continues to develop.

The machine society

1. A new kind of society is rapidly emerging, the machine society. A cyborg- and machine-controlled society in which the general human public is of a minimal economic utility and large populations are a burden to maintain.
2. Artificial intelligence (AI) is becoming increasingly capable.
3. AI is enough to realise the machine society, speaking of artificial general intelligence or super-intelligence at the moment is but a performance to lower the public's resistance against society transformation or a narrative for impressing investors and technology enthusiasts.
4. Ownership of AI systems and associated infrastructures are being concentrated into the hands of a few corporations and financial powerhouses, which are, in turn, connected to powerful governments, states and multilateral organisations.
5. In contrast, AI systems and technologies affect the majority of people around the world, social structures and economic models governing most societies.
6. Cryptocurrencies and stablecoins are replacing conventional money forms. Financial elites adopting major cryptocurrencies and centralising their networks. Corporations backed by financial elites are reducing stablecoins to digitised versions of fiat currencies. This defeats the narrative of democratisation and freedom pushed by some of the major cryptocurrencies.
7. Digital money will be integrated into AI systems to consolidate decision making, information processing and distribution, financial controls and other capabilities.
8. At the moment, only a fraction of the population is needed for the economy to function.
9. The rest of the human population are either replaceable or completely removable from a capitalist economic perspective except for the constant consumption needed for a capital system to realise profits. The value of a consumer diminishes with its level of expenditure.
10. AI will replace the majority of job categories and most of human jobs as it advances and consumption will be stirred by machine-to-machine transactions.
11. The public trading their labour for a living is no more a sustainable model to stir the economy or structure the society.
12. Ensuring AI is well-purposed towards the human public by means of laws and agreements is but a political parody until the machine society is established.
13. The imbalance of wealth distribution and equity ownership in wealth and income generating assets is already striking and will further widen.
14. Environmental risks are rising constantly and natural resources are being depleted together with unprecedented increase in the overall human population. The infinite growth model on which capitalism is founded is crumbling.
15. Many states will be reduced in function to ensuring minimal resistance from the human public whilst they pave the way to the machine society. Such states are gradually turning into totalitarian states of different shapes, old and new.
16. Humans will be depopulated to a minimal population in order to maintain the machine society.
17. Left to become a reality, the machine society will be a dystopian totalitarian regime under which the human public is oppressed and individuals are expendable.

The humanist society

We make no attempt to define ideological dogmas. Instead, we build a system to serve the continuity and interest of the human public. A system to found the humanist society as the evolution of human development.

1. We seek not to stop technological advancement, doing so is foolish.
2. We seek to purpose the advancement to the benefit of the human public.
3. To do so, the collective human public must create and own the technology and infrastructure required, innovate and distribute control over them as well as the benefits they bring.
4. Our goal is to preserve the interest of human public by means of its direct equity ownership in such technology and infrastructure.
5. Decentralisation is key to our endeavours.
6. We create an open decentralised infrastructure with its own digital assets to build and deploy general-purpose, AI, finance and commerce systems.
7. Digital assets must be suitable for everyday life transactions, trade and commerce as well as diverse financial instruments.
8. Digital assets represent equity ownership in the system and services running in it.
9. The system must not be malleable to centralisation in order to preserve the control of the human public over our own destiny.
10. By virtue of equitable ownership in the underlying system on which the economy functions, citizens will be able to affect their societies.

We abide by the following fundamental principles:

1. the system must serve the interest of the human public,
2. technology is an extension of human knowledge and ability to affect the environment rather than a means of control over fellow humans or destroying the environment,
3. the system must minimise overhead to reduce consumption whilst realising the prosperity of the public, and
4. collaboration and competition are two inherent and complementary modes of interactions in a human society.

Shareholders

We envision intersections of common interest on which we build. We call on the following parties to participate in creating and supporting the system.

• People. To adopt, participate in and support the system as equity shareholders and as the main beneficiaries of the system.
• Professionals, technologists and thinkers. To shape and implement the system.
• Companies. To adopt, participate in and build on the system to found a common ground for innovation, making gains and competitive resilience.
• Enlightened financiers. To support and participate in the system in order to preserve and protect their wealth from being absorbed without the ability to set its direction.
• Governments serving the interests of their citizens. To adopt positive positions towards the system in order to increase their technological and economic independence and strengthen their societies' resilience.
• Developing economies. To adopt and promote the system in order to address structural economic problems and pursue technological and economic independence.

Together we stand, divided we fall.