Automated Force Removes the Bargain Underpinning Democracy

Democracy is plausibly a historical bargain in which elites grant workers redistribution and influence because workers are useful and can threaten society by rioting; once human labor is worthless and the police and military are fully automated, that bargain dissolves, and because AI forces can be singly loyal to one individual (unlike human soldiers who can refuse orders), an unprecedented concentration of power becomes possible unless we deliberately choose to align AI to the law and constitution rather than to any one person.