RE: Would You Be Comfortable Being Ruled By An AI Government?
Rather than some corrupt humans?
Humans are unfit to rule. We have animal drives and they dictate our behavior. When we form bureaucratic systems, it is only a matter of time before they become rotten from corruption. It is fairly common to get drunk from power. It's addictive. Humans are much more dangerous to other humans than some AI that lacks any human drives.
AI will be increasingly used in management because of explosively growing data that is impossible to make use of manually. The term AI is pure glorification at this point. We're really talking about machine learning applied to optimization problems.
I'm thoroughly disgusted at corrupt humans abusing power. I would like nothing more than to see every lazy, stupid, corrupt and self-important manager or leader get sacked. Algorithms do not have any these qualities by default. For example, hiring decisions in the government should be delegated to AI. All good old boy's networks doling out their own cushy government positions should be totally annihilated!
Nearly every country has such networks of parasites draining its resources. Every single one belonging to those networks should be fired immediately.
That kind of disgust towards human corruption is exactly why I wrote this article and why a part of me wants that we should one day get a true AI that could replace governments for good.
An alternative to that is government by people but through something like Tau chain facilitating consensus building by scaling up discussions to include millions of people. Such a system should include some very important safeguards built in against oppression of minorities by majorities.
I would be very interested in blockchain paying a role in governance in the future. Great thought!
Blockchain makes cooking the books much more difficult than using a some sort of private centralized ledger even if it gets regularly audited. A blockchain is immutable and should be made public if it is used to track government money.
Exactly. That's why I hope it is implemented in a major way soon.
We don't have true AI. We have expert systems. Algorithms designed to be very good at very specific tasks. Because these tasks can often be things that typically those we consider very intelligent in society typically do (math, calculations, statistics, etc) we consider the machine intelligent.
Though it isn't. It is constrained to the limits of the algorithm.
The important thing to remember is that it is not truly intelligent. It works within the confines of the algorithms as programmed by humans. The CORRUPT humans you are referring to impose their concepts upon the recipe that ends up being the algorithm.
Though unlike a human, an algorithm does not change its mind. So if there is something to exploit or something that ends up being a very bad idea, the algorithm now acting as the government will not be able to see it. Who changes it?
We don't have anything remotely close to true AI right now. We have a lot of expert systems. They are good at specific tasks, but they themselves are not good at things outside of that task.
I think that's what I meant with:
You wrote:
Data-driven decision making can make backroom deals somewhat more difficult than total freedom. We will have increasingly complicated decisions made by AI in an independent fashion.
I agree with your disgust at corruption. I note that we enable such corruption by tolerating government. I would also point out that there are many, many more networks of parasites than there are countries, more than there are governments at any level, more than there are corporations and transnational institutions in the world.
We are being provided technical means of producing our own goods and services today at an ever increasing rate, across every field of human endeavor, and it is the parasitic drain of our wealth by industry that centralizes power and fuels corruption.
Join the decentralization revolution, and keep your money. That's all it takes to fire the corrupt bastards profiting off your work - just keep it to yourself, and stop giving it to them.