Communities opting out of default governance may also be early adopters of AI companionship as part of a broader 'build your own social infrastructure' ethos.
Parallel jurisdictions built outside the nation-state.
AI companions become a primary relationship.
If Sovereign Bunkering plays out broadly
At scale, AI companions become a normalized primary relationship for a meaningful share of the population, reshaping what 'relationship,' 'family,' and 'social life' mean commercially.
If Synthetic Intimacy plays out broadly
At scale, communities increasingly opt into parallel legal, digital, or physical jurisdictions outside default nation-state governance, fragmenting what 'market' and 'jurisdiction' even mean.
These trends run alongside each other without colliding directly.
