The industrial revolution mechanized human muscle; today, AI is mechanizing human thought. White-collar professionals are actively training the systems poised to displace them, while rapid advancements in general-purpose robotics mean physical trades are no longer a guaranteed safe harbor.

Economic displacement is the immediate reality, but the trajectory of increasingly autonomous AI presents a wider spectrum of global risks. While the complete loss of human agency to an unaligned superintelligence remains a contested speculation, immediate threats like automated warfare and democratized cyber-attacks are established facts.

Current global governance is failing to keep pace. The EU AI Act explicitly exempts military applications, and traditional nuclear non-proliferation strategies fail when applied to open-source software and commercially available hardware. This session explores the reality of global workforce disruption, the immediate security vulnerabilities of decentralized AI, and the unprecedented international treaties that would required to manage this technological shift. Because those don't exist yet.