But let me go on a tangent. When will we have AI governments and AI taxmen? Would I rather work or for the taxman of some loudmouth who convinced people to vote him in the ballot , or for an AI that is proving to improve every year (with politically- and hopefully democratically defined criteria)? And how are our intellectuals preparing us for this instead of dooming-and-glooming about AI ?
Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri "Cybernetic" government type?
Not a particularly useful line of inquiry unless you're willing to get full political and legal realist with a dash of Mao, and ask: how is the cybernetic government kept in power? Who's pulling its strings?
But let me go on a tangent. When will we have AI governments and AI taxmen? Would I rather work or for the taxman of some loudmouth who convinced people to vote him in the ballot , or for an AI that is proving to improve every year (with politically- and hopefully democratically defined criteria)? And how are our intellectuals preparing us for this instead of dooming-and-glooming about AI ?