The West Is Not Ready To Govern The AI Age – JP

Last updated May 6, 2026

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Buenos Aires, Argentina –

Trump, Palantir, Anthropic and lost governance.

The world is now witnessing the early stages of an extreme, traumatic and profoundly challenging transformation. This shift is visible in the deepening crisis of global and national governance, the growing inadequacy of the state, and the deterioration of representative democracy.

Companies such as Anthropic have exposed the limits of nation-states by demonstrating how sensitive and powerful technologies now operate beyond governmental control, wielding influence that surpasses traditional systems of authority. Meanwhile, Palantir is actively shaping events, pushing technological leaders and conventional governments toward a bolder, more disruptive model: the “technological republic.” In this vision, Silicon Valley evolves from a mere economic engine into a major geopolitical actor.

This shift appears strategically necessary in light of China’s autocratic system—an ethically questionable but undeniably efficient model thanks to its speed, versatility and seamless alignment between state and actors.

President Trump seems acutely aware of the stakes. He recognizes there is no time for hesitation in the face of a global transformation that demands bold and rapid decisions. He can no longer wait for Europe to overcome its confusion and moral paralysis. The silent war for dominance in artificial intelligence and cyberspace has already begun, driven by the urgent need for vast energy resources and satellite infrastructure. Moves such as the renewed interest in Greenland, the situation in the Argentine Antarctica, the conflicts in the Middle East, and the acceleration of space missions, all suggest a coherent, strategically designed plan rather than improvisation or personal whim. The “uncomfortable and incorrect” American president is acting decisively amid abrupt and inexorable global changes that will reshape everything we know.

We are living through a period of breathtaking technological acceleration, accompanied by undeniable risks. Yet many political leaders, regulators and even segments of the political media remain largely unaware of the magnitude and speed of this transformation. A troubling number appear anesthetized by their domestic political circuses.

National and global governance is being dramatically outpaced

In this context, the international system is sinking deeper into structural crisis. The pace of events signals the early phase of a complex process in which the forced emergence of a New Global Geopolitical Order is only the first step. The simultaneous acceleration of exponential technologies—artificial intelligence, cognitive automation, biotechnology, digital platforms and cyber infrastructures—is generating instability that overwhelms institutions inherited from the industrial era. Designed for slow, territorial, and predictable processes, today’s governance structures have become decoupled from a hyper-technological reality that operates in real time, on a global scale, with non-linear dynamics and a steady transfer of power to technological ecosystems.

This gap is not merely technical; it is political, social, and existential. The classical nation-state, once the cornerstone of order, is losing effective governing capacity to transnational technological actors that concentrate power, information and decision-making beyond sovereign borders. Legal and regulatory frameworks have grown obsolete, and governing institutions suffer from functional “oxidation,” eroding their efficiency and legitimacy while creating a planetary vacuum of strategic leadership.

In this environment, “lost governance” does not mean the complete absence of government, but its practical inability to function in a reality structurally alien to it. Regulatory and control functions are migrating to non-state actors, opaque algorithms, digital architectures and autonomous technological systems. The real danger is not change itself, but inaction. Without a profound redesign of governance—complete with adaptive coordination mechanisms and ethical frameworks—this global tsunami will continue eroding social cohesion, geopolitical stability and institutional credibility.

Global redesign of governance

Traditional systems of government, born in the industrial era, grow more obsolete and unreliable by the day. Representative democracies, in particular, show clear structural deterioration when confronted with hyper-connected, highly stimulated and demanding societies.

A radical redesign of both global and national governance has therefore become essential. This redesign must fully address the exponential nature of technology and its systemic effects, the decline of the nation-state, and the crisis of institutional trust.

The transition to the Hyper-Technological Era demands new architectures of power. Global governance can no longer be exclusively state-centric; it must integrate political leaders with private scientific and technological actors in a new planetary framework. The convergence of artificial intelligence, big data, biogenetics and automation is redefining social and economic structures, requiring fresh global consensus and adaptive regulatory models.

Societies today drift in a state of impotence and rising uncertainty, the result of a widening gap between accelerating citizen demands and the sluggish responses of traditional institutions. This disconnect erodes political legitimacy and fuels fragmentation and disorder.

Current governance was built for a world of slow, linear and centralized decision-making focused on physical territory and resources. Today’s hyper-connected reality—with cyberspace as a new existential domain—requires flexible, decentralized, versatile and cooperative approaches. Challenges such as cybersecurity, AI ethics, data governance, biogenetics, transhumanism, and space colonization demand unprecedented international cooperation grounded in a spirit of universal responsibility.

Faced with a nation-state weakened by structural rigidity, we urgently need a form of global governance capable of providing future certainty and delivering agile, reliable, and sustainable solutions for world stability.

Artificial Intelligence and the Future: Exponentiality and Cyberspace

The foundations of this technological transformation are not difficult to grasp, yet few truly comprehend its scale—and the ignorance displayed by many prominent world leaders is especially alarming.

Two unprecedented phenomena are converging at extraordinary speed:
1. Technological exponentiality — a self-accelerating process of innovation that rapidly renders previous technologies, systems, and organizations obsolete.
2. Cyberspace — a domain that transcends physical territory (land, sea, air) and lies beyond the reach of existing borders, rules, and governance structures.

A new reality and new actors have burst onto the scene with tools and momentum that governments cannot match. This supra-space carries flows of data, investment, knowledge, digital currencies, services, and high-stakes strategic decisions.

The outlook is uncertain and not without risk. Yuval Harari has warned of the possible rise of a techno-aristocracy wielding immense power. Others fear the opposite danger: systemic anarchy born of uncontrolled speed. The only way to navigate these extremes is through new models and institutions of governance that can restore stability and manage the critical transformation now underway.

While AI and humanity’s future advance without clear governmental direction or certainties, leaders must urgently accelerate the redesign of governance to bring order to extreme scenarios and safeguard security and stability through the coordinated pursuit of global common interests.

Building Direction

1. Incorporate new actors—technological corporations and civil society—through technology-mediated models of direct participation.
2. Establish early-warning systems, certifications, and standardized global validations that protect individual rights and systemic stability amid the evolution of artificial intelligence and other disruptive technologies.
3. Create robust networks of technological and scientific cooperation. Without strategic alliances and knowledge-transfer mechanisms, the technological divide will only widen global inequalities.

The redesign of governance must be oriented toward comprehensive, long-term sustainability. Yet inertia still dominates. Every day we witness bizarre disputes amid this “technological flood,” even as rulers anchored in the past fumble in the present. Disoriented leaders continue applying models and institutions from a world that no longer exists.

Global leaders must act with urgency and determination, drawing on the creativity of academics, technologists and specialists. They must adopt a collaborative spirit and rapidly establish the foundations of a global Future Agenda for humanity—one with governance architecture suited to the complexities of the hyper-technological era. Events are accelerating with no one at the helm. Left to chance, they are now in the hands of a reality that has already taken flight, with no turning back.

The hyper-technological era challenges us to manage both the expected and the unimaginable—from transhumanism to space exploration—under principles that protect what is essentially human within an “advanced humanism.” Only then can this era become a new renaissance for humanity: a time of harmony, abundance and well-being.

About the Author:
Dario Giustozzi is the Academic Director for Future Artificial Intelligence at the University of Business and Social Sciences in Buenos Aires, Argentina.