The way I understand it could work is that democratic leaders with “democracy-aligned AI” would get more effective influence on nondemocratic figures (by fine-tuned persuasion or some kind of AI-designed political zugzwang or etc), thus reducing totalitarian risks. Is my understanding correct?
Not what I’d meant—rather, that democracies could demand better oversight of their leaders, and so reduce the risk of democracies slipping into various traps (corruption, authoritarianism).
The idea sounds nice, but practically it may also occur to be a double edged sword. If there is an AI that could significantly help in oversight of decision-makers, then there is almost surely an AI that could help the decision-makers drive public opinion in their desired direction. And since leaders usually have more resources (network, money) than the public, I’d assume that this scenario has larger probability than the successful oversight scenario. Intuitively, way larger.
I wonder how we could achieve oversight without getting controlled back in the process. Seems like a tough problem.
Not what I’d meant—rather, that democracies could demand better oversight of their leaders, and so reduce the risk of democracies slipping into various traps (corruption, authoritarianism).
Thanks!
The idea sounds nice, but practically it may also occur to be a double edged sword. If there is an AI that could significantly help in oversight of decision-makers, then there is almost surely an AI that could help the decision-makers drive public opinion in their desired direction. And since leaders usually have more resources (network, money) than the public, I’d assume that this scenario has larger probability than the successful oversight scenario. Intuitively, way larger.
I wonder how we could achieve oversight without getting controlled back in the process. Seems like a tough problem.