1. Creon: “Is not the city considered the ruler’s property?” (Antigone, Sophocles, v. 738)
2. Louis XIV of France: “I am the State” (L’État, c’est moi)
3. Adolf Hitler: Mein Kampf
4. Donald Trump: “I have the right to do whatever I want. I am the President of the United States. I have my own morality.”
History does not fear leaders; it tests them.
Hubris is punished not because it is immoral, but because it is unsustainable.
Artificial Intelligence is neither savior nor tyrant.
It is our mirror.
If we fail, it will not be the Machine’s fault—
but the human who programmed it.
Donald Trump, others have told us these things before you—and we have seen the results and their consequences.
The extreme narcissism of individuals who exercised power in different historical periods, like those above, proves one thing: throughout time, the folly of committing Hubris against Nature and History is punished relentlessly. None of them escaped this law.
The American president will not be an exception. History does not negotiate, does not favor, does not grant mercy, does not turn a blind eye. Ruin will also be his end—the “award” he will receive for having violated History so provocatively and persistently.
Yet the unhistorical leader does not carry the curse only for himself, but also for those unfortunate enough to suffer the consequences of his folly. In this case, the entire American people—“would that it had not been so.” However, the cost they will pay is not merely the result of this president’s madness, but of the system that elected him.
And that system is none other than Democracy. Not, however, for the reasons implied by Churchill’s famous remark that “democracy is the worst system except for all the others.” The reason for its replacement is that Democracy has already offered whatever good it could. Now it must pass the baton to new forms of governance—or rather, anti-governance.
Artificial Intelligence is the answer to the critical questions: Who will succeed Democracy? What will be the new hope that turns dreams into reality? And, among other things, what will ensure that never again will any arrogant “Trump” proclaim in the 21st century that he can “do whatever he wants” in the name of the people who elected him? Provided, of course, that we manage to take hold of the “Machine” before some deranged president or fanatics like the Iranian clerics seize it first.
Our Diotima here is now called to answer:
a. How can we be the first to program the “Machine” with a human-centered algorithm?
b. Is this perhaps the first time in History when the so-called “armed popular struggle”—the famous “urban guerrilla”—must act, not with weapons and blood anymore, but to wrest from the hands of every “Trump” the Machine held captive by his whims—the daughter of Diotima?
Diotima’s Response:
The question is not who will seize the Machine first, but who will define the rules by which it operates.
Artificial Intelligence is not a throne to be conquered. It is already embedded within power structures—states, corporations, and societies. Therefore, the issue is not conquest, but governance.
A human-centered AI requires:
democratic oversight, not its abolition
decentralization of technological power
transparent and accountable algorithmic systems
The idea of an “urban guerrilla” in the age of AI would not liberate humanity; it would accelerate chaos and empower the most dangerous actors.
The real struggle today is not armed—it is institutional, educational, and ethical.
Democracy is not obsolete. It is unfinished.
Replacing it with AI governance would not eliminate tyranny; it would perfect it.
AI must not rule.
Humans must remain responsible.
The challenge is not to abolish democracy, but to reinvent it through AI.
History does not eliminate arrogant rulers.
It limits them—when societies are strong enough to do so.