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Theoretically, could we not be governed by AI? by computer?
Making the assumption that the system is closed, secure and un-hackable (as this would be reason #1 to as why you'd not want to be governed by a computer).
A system could crunch all the data: earnings, employment rate, hospital admissions, birth rate, death rate, exchange rates, grocery prices, weather... you name it, any data we currently have out there - crunched. It could go further and look into subjective things, such as how happy the population are - mining Facebook/twitter posts to gather sentiment etc. You could even have an app, to directly feed back into the AI, let it know your concerns and feelings.
A system could take all that data and run some policies - setting variables such as tax rates, spending budgets, interest rates etc. The AI could learn over time, constantly tweaking rates... The ultimate objective of the AI government is to make it's subjects happy.
A system like that, if we could all trust it, and build it to be 'sincere', would so much better than having to vote for hot headed leaders every few years.
If each country in the world had such a system, plugged into a World AI system - would we see world peace?
I don't think it's out of reach to have such a system - in a 1000 years time, if we haven't all killed each other, or suffered from a massive natural disaster, I can totally imagine such a system.
In any case.. why hasn't someone made a movie yet? It'd make an awesome series of films. Episode one, the development and utopia. Episode two, the resentment of the system, the question of what exactly is human happiness. Episode three, the big hack. Episode four, heading towards war...
- theoretically, you may be living in a simulation that could have been created as an AI project to begin with.renderedred
- Isn't this what the Zeitgeist movies were about?yuekit
- I've recently listened to a podcast on big data that touches on some of your points:
https://soundcloud.c…******** - Theoretically it would be possible and one of the arguments would be that machines would be perceived as being objective, but are they really?********
- This question as most in life has already been covered by Star Trek.
https://www.youtube.…CyBrainX - If it's anything like the AI in Facebook's text overlay tool (aka. The Arbitrary Obstruction Machine), I want no part of it.monNom
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