This honestly depends on the level of control achieved over AI in practice.
I do agree with the claim that there are pretty strong incentives to have AI peacefully takeover everything, but this is a long-term incentive, and more importantly if control gets good enough, at least some people would wield control of AI because of AIs wanting to be controlled by humans, combined with AI control strategies being good enough that you might avoid takeover at least in the early regime.
To be clear, in the long run, I expect an AI to likely (as in 70-85% likely) to wield the fruits of control, but I think that humans will at least at first wield the control for a number of years, maybe followed by uploads of humans, like virtual dictators and leaders next in line for control.
The point is that the “controller” of a “controllable AI” is a role that can be filled by an AI and not only by a human or a human institution. AI is going to quickly grow the pie to the extent that makes current industry and economy (controlled by humans) a rounding error, so it seems unlikely that among the entities vying for control over controllable AIs, humans and human institutions are going to be worth mentioning. It’s not even about a takeover, Google didn’t take over Gambia.
A likely answer is “an AI”.
This honestly depends on the level of control achieved over AI in practice.
I do agree with the claim that there are pretty strong incentives to have AI peacefully takeover everything, but this is a long-term incentive, and more importantly if control gets good enough, at least some people would wield control of AI because of AIs wanting to be controlled by humans, combined with AI control strategies being good enough that you might avoid takeover at least in the early regime.
To be clear, in the long run, I expect an AI to likely (as in 70-85% likely) to wield the fruits of control, but I think that humans will at least at first wield the control for a number of years, maybe followed by uploads of humans, like virtual dictators and leaders next in line for control.
The point is that the “controller” of a “controllable AI” is a role that can be filled by an AI and not only by a human or a human institution. AI is going to quickly grow the pie to the extent that makes current industry and economy (controlled by humans) a rounding error, so it seems unlikely that among the entities vying for control over controllable AIs, humans and human institutions are going to be worth mentioning. It’s not even about a takeover, Google didn’t take over Gambia.