The problem with that argument is, how would AI get to a position to control these things? That’s somehow always left out. There are brakes in our society that surely has faults, but most governments are more on the slow-moving side of things due to these very breaks. An AI won’t be suddenly replacing elected officials to make any sort of decision.
Surely, one might argue that a “smart enough singularity-level AI” can manipulate people to achieve its goals, but I don’t really see that feasible. Can intelligence really has all that much more “depth” to it? The most intelligent people on Earth are probably doing some obscure PHd research on some minimal government subsidies, people in control has very little intersection with them.
Surely, one might argue that a “smart enough singularity-level AI” can manipulate people to achieve its goals, but I don’t really see that feasible. Can intelligence really has all that much more “depth” to it? The most intelligent people on Earth are probably doing some obscure PHd research on some minimal government subsidies, people in control has very little intersection with them.