AGE OF TRANSITION & THE MENTAL SINGULARITY

Free Book: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18735660

Public International Law at the Edge of Structural Obsolescence

For jurists of Public International Law, the defining transformations of the 21st century will not be incremental treaty revisions or doctrinal refinements.

They will be structural. Artificial Superintelligence (ASI), autonomous robotics, molecular-scale production, and high-bandwidth neurotechnology are dissolving the material assumptions upon which the Westphalian order was constructed.

This book presents a comprehensive socio-legal analysis of that dissolution.

The classical architecture of international law presupposes scarcity: finite resources, territorially bounded jurisdiction, labor-based economies, and strategic rivalry among sovereign states.

From 1648 onward, sovereignty functioned as a rational organizing principle for managing competition under constraint. Territorial integrity, non-intervention, and jurisdictional exclusivity provided predictability in a world defined by limited production capacity and high material friction.

But what occurs when scarcity becomes technologically negotiable?

Automation at scale decouples production from human labor. Algorithmic coordination optimizes distribution across borders in real time. Advanced AI systems operate beyond the cognitive limits of individual states. Under these conditions, fragmentation is no longer a neutral feature of pluralism—it becomes a systemic liability.

This is where the book introduces its central legal thesis: the Juridical Singularity.

The Juridical Singularity describes the threshold at which fragmented, state-centric legal systems become structurally incompatible with superintelligent infrastructures.

In a world of recursively improving AI, regulatory arbitrage ceases to be a marginal efficiency problem. Divergent safety standards, incompatible data regimes, and jurisdictional safe havens create existential alignment risks.

A superintelligent system cannot be safely governed by contradictory normative architectures.

The text argues that Public International Law must evolve from a coordination framework among sovereign equals into a unified alignment regime capable of:

• Establishing coherent planetary jurisdiction over ASI governance
• Eliminating regulatory safe havens that incentivize unsafe development
• Integrating digital public infrastructure into transparent legal oversight
• Reframing sovereignty beyond territorial exclusivity

This is not a call for centralized authoritarianism. It is an argument that normative coherence becomes a technical necessity when intelligence operates at planetary scale.

Closely linked to this transformation is the concept of Electric Technocracy.

Electric Technocracy is proposed as a transitional governance architecture suited to post-scarcity conditions.

As automation displaces labor across sectors, traditional fiscal and social structures destabilize. Mass redundancy without systemic redesign risks social entropy, radicalization, and fragmentation.

Electric Technocracy responds with legally structured mechanisms:

• Automation-based taxation capturing machine productivity
• Universal material guarantees preventing aggregate demand collapse
• AI-assisted administrative optimization to enhance efficiency and reduce corruption
• Transparent, auditable algorithmic governance embedded within rule-of-law safeguards

For international lawyers, this raises immediate doctrinal questions.

How does state responsibility apply when algorithmic systems mediate cross-border infrastructure?

Can the principle of non-intervention survive in a world of integrated digital networks?

What becomes of treaty law when enforcement depends on autonomous monitoring systems?

Does the UN Charter framework remain viable under conditions of post-territorial coordination?

The book confronts these questions without rhetorical utopianism.

It recognizes institutional inertia, elite preservation dynamics, and the risk that advanced technologies may entrench rather than dissolve hierarchy.

Indeed, one of its most controversial claims is that without normative and cognitive recalibration, technological abundance may intensify symbolic conflict rather than resolve material scarcity.

Here emerges the anthropological dimension of the analysis.

Human cognitive architecture evolved under scarcity. Status competition, in-group favoritism, and dominance hierarchies were adaptive under conditions of material constraint.

In a post-scarcity environment, these same dispositions risk mutating into destabilizing forces amplified by god-like technological tools.

Material redistribution alone does not guarantee stability.

The text therefore explores the Mental Singularity a bio-technical transition facilitated by regulated neurotechnology that enables higher-bandwidth communication, emotional transparency, and reduced tribal reflexes.

While controversial, the proposal is framed within strict neuro-legal safeguards, including the inviolability of cognitive autonomy and the absolute right to disconnect.

For experts in global constitutionalism, multilevel governance, and international institutional reform, the implications are profound:

Is unified planetary jurisdiction an erosion of sovereignty - or its evolution?

Can customary international law adapt to AI-mediated norm generation?

How should jus ad bellum and jus in bello doctrines evolve when autonomous systems conduct warfare?

What safeguards are required to prevent “algorithmic hegemony” by technologically dominant actors?

The book situates Public International Law at a civilizational crossroads comparable to 1648 or 1945 - but under exponential technological acceleration.

The difference is scale and speed.

The time horizon for adaptation is compressed.

Fragmentation under conditions of superintelligence is not sustainable.

Nor is blind centralization without legitimacy.

The challenge is to design a coherent juridical architecture capable of aligning technological capability with normative stability.

For scholars, judges, diplomats, and practitioners shaping the future of international order, this work offers a systematic, deeply argued framework.

It neither romanticizes the state nor dismisses it.

Instead, it asks whether the foundational logic of sovereignty must transform when scarcity dissolves and intelligence scales beyond the human.

The age of superintelligence will not wait for doctrinal comfort.

Public International Law must either anticipate structural transformation - or confront irrelevance in a world governed by systems it failed to conceptualize.

This book is an invitation to engage that transformation before it is imposed by technological necessity.