# Superintelligence May Proliferate New Forms of Government by Alexander Wissner-Gross > "At the dawn of audio recording, many people in Edison’s time thought the ability to record the human voice would standardize accents and everything else. The exact opposite happened in many ways. Although low-resource languages have died off in the long tail, audio recording helped produce a proliferation of new accents and dialects. I predict superintelligence will likewise produce not an erosion of nation-states but a proliferation of new forms of government." > **— Alexander Wissner-Gross**, *MOONSHOTS Live, September 25, 2026* ## Sources and Context - **Recording and precise locator:** [17:27](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cbk7hdOwJj4&t=1047s) — MOONSHOTS Live, September 25, 2026. - **Exact reconciled source object:** “At the dawn of audio recording, many people in Edison’s time thought the ability to record the human voice would standardize accents and everything else. The exact opposite happened in many ways. Although low-resource languages have died off in the long tail, audio recording helped produce a proliferation of new accents and dialects. I predict superintelligence will likewise produce not an erosion of nation-states but a proliferation of new forms of government.” - **Editorial status:** The poster preserves the source-faithful object, including visible bracketed repairs and omissions where present. - **Reconciled source dossier:** [[research/Jensen Pushes Back on Doomers Moonshots Live|Jensen Pushes Back on Doomers Moonshots Live]] preserves transcript order, speaker attribution, editorial conventions, and the surrounding argument. - **Weekly promotion dossier:** [[research/Weekly Reminder Hunt - 2026-10-02|Weekly Reminder Hunt — October 2, 2026]] records why this object was selected for permanent promotion. ## Related Articles and Collections - **Collection:** [[collections/Simple Reminders|Simple Reminders]] - **Collection:** [[collections/Machine Succession|Machine Succession]] - **Article:** [[articles/The Gigawatt Is the New Measure of War|The Gigawatt Is the New Measure of War]] ## Related Topics - [[wiki/Alexander Wissner-Gross|Alexander Wissner-Gross]] - [[wiki/AI Access|AI Access]] - [[wiki/Public Utility AI|Public Utility AI]] - [[wiki/AI Distribution|AI Distribution]] ## Share on Social Media ``` "At the dawn of audio recording, many people in Edison’s time thought the ability to record the human voice would standardize accents and everything else. The exact opposite happened in many ways. Although low-resource languages have died off in the long tail, audio recording helped produce a proliferation of new accents and dialects. I predict superintelligence will likewise produce not an erosion of nation-states but a proliferation of new forms of government." — Alexander Wissner-Gross, MOONSHOTS Live, September 25, 2026 https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-wissner-gross-superintelligence-may-proliferate-new-forms-government ```