Unfortunately, democracy itself depends on the economic and military relevance of masses of people. If that goes away, the iceberg will flip and the equilibrium system of government won’t be democracy.
Agreed. The rich and powerful could pick off more and more economically irrelevant classes while promising the remaining ones the same won’t happen to them, until eventually they can get everything they need from AI and live in enclaves protected by vast drone armies. Pretty bleak, but seems like the default scenario given the current incentives.
It seems really hard to think of any examples of such tech.
I think you would effectively have to build extensions to people’s neocortexes in such a way that those extensions cannot ever function on their own. Building AI agents is clearly not that.
Agreed. The rich and powerful could pick off more and more economically irrelevant classes while promising the remaining ones the same won’t happen to them, until eventually they can get everything they need from AI and live in enclaves protected by vast drone armies. Pretty bleak, but seems like the default scenario given the current incentives.
I think you would effectively have to build extensions to people’s neocortexes in such a way that those extensions cannot ever function on their own. Building AI agents is clearly not that.