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Are We Ready to Be Governed by Artificial Intelligence?

https://www.merionwest.com/are-we-ready-to-be-governed-by-arti/
9•leephillips•2h ago

Comments

jfengel•2h ago
Honestly, given how terrible humans are at it, I'm down for giving it a try.

Of course it will be every bit as bad as the people who implement it. But that just kinda highlights the core problem.

AnimalMuppet•2h ago
No. In fact, not only no, but <insert expletive-laden but not-acceptable-language-for-HN negative>.

I do not want vibe-coding the law, especially criminal law. I do not want vibe-coding the tax rules. I do not want vibe-coding traffic safety.

And, in fact, we won't be governed by AI, even if we are. If we're governed by AI, we're really governed by whoever trained the AI, and/or whoever curated the training data. Do we want to be governed by them? Again, no, with expletives.

FloorEgg•1h ago
Maybe this boils down to people who think AI is on an exponential (self-improving) curve, materially unbounded by physical resources, and people who think it's on a series of sigmoid curves with material physical constraints.

If someone assumes AI will become significantly more capable than humans at reasoning through complexity, then I can empathize with their opinion. I was previously convinced (open to) this possibility, but in recent years and the better AI gets the clearer it is to me that it's going to take a lot longer, and the super AGI outcome is a lot harder to see.

I'm sure by the time it could possibly be a feasible and positive option people will be plenty ready for it... So no need to prepare prematurely.

TLDR: I agree with you, but without the expletives.

boothby•3m ago
I mean, same, but what are you (we) actually going to do about it?
Eddy_Viscosity2•2h ago
The implicit question here is are we willing to be governed by the people who own AI? Because that what this boils down to.
383toast•1h ago
Do people really get to choose who they're governed by, or do they get shown a few choices that are really false choices
satisfice•18m ago
Power is real. Powerful people get to do what they want to do. We can only hope that they have a conscience (otherwise known as the Alignment Problem).
poulpy123•41m ago
Yeah exactly, we will never be governed bu
voidfunc•2h ago
We're not putting this genie back in the bottle so better get Ready if you're not already.
agentultra•1h ago
How do you do that? Just submit before they command you without a whisper of doubt?
gabrielsroka•1h ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46420273
thrill•44m ago
It would be nice to be governed by any intelligence.
kelseyfrog•43m ago
Fixed Title: Are We Ready to Be Governed by Sam Altman?
jaybrendansmith•27m ago
Humans are terrible at it. There's a short sci fi story where an AI selects the next American President from all 350M citizens. I'm here for it. I think it's a fantastic idea.
boothby•10m ago
I'd argue that the populace is "ready" to be governed by the arbitrary whims of those in power, be it masked federal agents taking people off streets to social media peddling influence to the highest bidder to corporate structures determining financial and health outcomes, all the way up to the executives and board members behind all of these decisions. So if those arbitrary whims outsource decision-making power to some gpu farms, who's to say we aren't ready?

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