We humans have millions of years of evolutionary baggage that makes us regard competition in a deadly light.
Politics is good; when it works properly, disagreements get solved without people beating each other up. But when a regime knows its days are numbered, there's always the chance it may use its position to change the rules and make the debate it is losing irrelevant.
The heart of manipulation is to empathize without being touched.
How will the approach of the Singularity spread across the human world view?
I say, let's learn more and then speculate.
What we have is a data glut.