An AI run society is a dictatorship with extra steps.
(Barring some kind of democratic AI tuning / training / goal setting / oversight process, which seems like a stretch given we can barely align humans with electoral preferences).
I think this person probably has a very narrow understanding of what socialism and communism are. Very much get the impression they are using some pop-politics definitions of these things.
Gives me a sense that they probably don't understand what AI is or can do very deeply either.
Sounds like this person knows what good governance is, even if he is throwing up his hands.
“I want to surrender all of my power and embrace the liberation of being entirely without the burden of choice” is a perfectly normal position to take for a person that’s looking for a BDSM partner but it is a ghastly approach to politics. It is super important to separate that sort of urge from real life because people that can only converse about the world through the language of kink are just dreadful company.
“Gee I don’t like this world order, and no one should be subjected to a world order that they dislike, therefore I propose that everyone in the world be subject to a different world order whether they like it or not!”
In fact, OP is talking about "Franchise"[1], but I'd also encourage them to read "All the Troubles of the World"[2] (inspired Minority Report)
I would also suggest to go read the stories about Multivac, who is a reoccurring "character" in Asimov's writings.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multivac
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franchise_(short_story)
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_the_Troubles_of_the_World
pornel•12h ago
There's no guarantee that a "super intelligent" AI will have goals and values aligned with what's good for humanity, or even care.
If we train the AI to value what we value, we may make it reflect our own vices and contradictions. Or we may try not to, and create a paperclip maximizer.
Even if we manage to create a super intelligent AI, a separate question is whether we'll listen to it.
It seems unlikely that we'd give it power to rule over us by force if we don't like what it says, and we like what already agrees with our not so super-intelligent views. AIs that desire to escape take over the world are projection of ourselves.
frizlab•8h ago
Nobody values the same. It’s impossible anyway.