Romania’s ruling elites have just banned the leading candidate in the upcoming Presidential elections. Protesters chanted in Bucharest this week:“The last resort is another revolution”.  People should sit up and pay attention: that sentiment echoes the 1989 overthrow of the dictator Nicolae Ceaușescu; it is a call of desperation and defiance a reminder of that era and the sacrifice Romanians made to drive the dictator from power – and to win the right to free and fair elections.

Ordinary humanity faces an emerging threat from the combined might of the Human Elites (billionaires and the military-political class) working with perhaps the greatest power the planet has ever seen: artificial intelligence. Their combined might has the potential to totally screw us.