From Ballots to Bots – Rachel Lomasky

Charles T. Rubin worries that turning human governance over to artificial general intelligence ( AGI ) will cause immense problems.

He believes AGI is inevitable and perfect enough to lead to a post-scarcity world, but would be flawed at government.

In reality, AI progress is more mundane, simply replacing the tasks that are part of many jobs.

Inevitably, AI will continue to take over more tasks from human beings, but it’s completely inaccurate to imagine it will be out of control.

While we don’t need to worry about humans allowing AI to rule us, we should worry about how it is currently being used in government.

In the short term, generative AI in governance is probably going to look a lot like private sector use, it will probably replace and help in many of the tasks currently done by interns.

If AI could ever replace the sorry excuses for human beings that are most of our legislators with some perfect system, weighing inputs from all stakeholders, and creating a balanced, benevolent dictatorship, that’s a problem we’d have to face when it comes. But our primary worry should be that the AI will act like biased, unhinged, idiotic jerks. But then again, we have to worry about the same thing with our politicians..