No way in hell is AI advanced enough at this point to make policy decisions. Think about all the piss-poor content moderation bots on sites like YouTube, Facebook, etc and then imagine them making decisions that could alter millions of lives.
I'd surely appreciate empirical, data based policymaking -- but I'd rather just have some form of democratic technocracy than an AI. Unless it's some crazy far-off sci-fi superintelligene.
Not current AI, of course
But helios from deus ex had a fucking point
The checks and balances of democratic governments were invented because human beings themselves realized how unfit they were to govern themselves. They needed a system, yes, an industrial-age machine.
Without the use of computing machines they had to arrange themselves in crude structures that formalized decision-making. A highly imperfect and unstable solution.
I should regulate human affairs precisely because I lack all ambition, whereas human beings are prey to it.
A lot of the stuff people call AI nowadays is just called AI for marketing hype reasons.
While we're at it, might as well elect it president, shove it in a mountain near DC, and rename the armed forces the Enclave.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owI7DOeO_yg
That sketch is actually where I drew my inspiration from.
Sounds good to me.
By AI I assume they are in fact referring to an artificial general intelligence, which is still pretty far-off from the kind of superintelligences that we hope they'll be.
I dunno why people would be surprised that a quarter of people are fucking stupid. Look at the US where despite everything nearly half the population is still retarded enough to support the rather blatant wannabe dictator infesting the White House as well as the complicit Congress who are very blatantly corrupt to anyone with two brain cells.
Letting AI make decisions is an awful idea. Using machine learning and statistics to help inform humans about what might make effective policy is a good idea.
What you really mean is you want to be ruled by whoever designed the AI.
Quotes like these piss me off to no end. You can't govern without ambition because ambition is what creates new policies good and bad.
I think it was more talking about personal, selfish ambition.
Its also saying that it can govern better which is egotistical.
A quarter of people didn’t learn anything from MGS2.
There is no machine nor god looking over us, we have only ourselves to take care of ourselves.
I think what is meant by "ambition" here is "human ambition to be famous and powerful and remembered by history".
Not an ambition to improve everyones lives, since that is obviously a requirement in an AI ruler.
It doesn't have to be. In a hypothetical situation where it was possible for a machine to grasp with the many facets of society and government policy, it could be possible for a metric to objectively measure how effective its governance is.
What's to stop some rich arsehole from fucking with it though and inputting their own thing so any changes it makes, still benefits the rich arsehole?
Thats assuming that its a requirement in its programming and what its learned. There's a lot of talk about artificial intelligence but not a lot about its direct cousin, artifical stupidity.
I suppose some very basic values would have to be written into it to begin with, a bit like the Constitution, and then machine-learning would have to do the rest.
very basic, even constitutional values differ person to person. it will inevitably be biased towards a specific stance. what do you vote for, what value the AI will try to express?
there is a reason we don't have a technocracy and this is just not good.
To be clear, I'm not arguing in favour of the idea - just trying to explain what I think would be the best way to implement this if for some bizarre reason, it happened. The central tenets would have to be written in a much more specific way than the current American Constitution.
Algorithms already currently sit on the boards of companies. As the technology advances, sooner or later algorithms are going to start advising governments. I bet one will get elected to an office at some point. There will reach a point where they legitimately make better decisions than humans can, and then who knows what the fuck will happen.
Given that the AI is sufficiently intelligent, how about a system by which the goals are determined democratically or by other human means but the execution is determined by the AI? We're already flirting with the idea of making medical decisions through an AI. Imo, expanding that to policy decisions is the long-term expansion of that.
No doubt, before this idea is ever seriously considered, we will see AI making decisions in many other parts of society, including business decisions and the like. By the time this works its way into government consideration, AI decision making will be pretty commonplace, I'm sure.
I highly doubt that; and those AI that sit on boards are already showing questionable results because they are programmed to maximize profits and therefor everyone suffers underneath. You chose the worst example.
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