The industrial revolution mechanized muscle. AI is mechanizing thought - and white-collar professionals are actively training the systems built to replace them, while general-purpose robotics means the trades are no longer a safe harbor either.

Job displacement is the immediate problem, but not the biggest one. Automated warfare and democratized cyber-attacks are already here. Governance isn't: the EU AI Act exempts military applications, and nuclear-style non-proliferation doesn't work on open-source software running on commodity hardware.

We'll cover workforce disruption as it's actually happening, the security risks of decentralized AI, and the international treaties that would be needed to manage any of it. Spoiler: they don't exist yet.