Would we be better off with an AI Government?
| Criteria | AI | Human |
|---|---|---|
| Effective Government | Unknown | Total Failure1 |
| Advantages | Vastly more intelligent | Can be successful at times |
| Drawbacks | Problems with alignment of goals and defining goals to maximize greater good | Voters unable to distinguish reality from nonsense / voter base easily manipulated / vulnerable to con-men and enemies |
| Potential | Unlimited possible benefits OR end of human race | Total surveillance society / 99% of population lives in squalor |
| Trends | A benign AI counters human weakness, corruption and stupidity / Humanity transcends its limitations and evolves into period of peace and abundance | Rise of Oligarchs / Humanity descends into an unending dark age culminating in famine |
- Applicable to human government over the ages taken as a whole. ↩︎
