I think that a large group of people with shared interests, such as a nation, require at least some form of a governing body and in the real world, governments have done that job for centuries, and it has worked quite well.
But, in the more recent times, we have time and again gotten countless examples of a saying that goes, “Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely.”
We all know first hand or through the experiences of someone else, that people in power often tend to be corrupt and at the highest level, that means that entire countries are not able to be run properly.
I don’t want to go too much into details, but I would just like to say that a lot of the governments of the world have proven themselves ineffective and inefficient to run a country, solve its problems and work for the welfare of the citizens.
Is AI The Answer?
If you keep up with the news, you must be well aware that AI has been progressing by leaps and bounds and the exponential growth in this field will mean a highly intelligent artificial intelligence system that can rival even human intelligence pretty soon enough.
This could mean that what the governments failed to do, the AI will accomplish very easily because it won’t have the human attributes of greed and ambition or any other emotion for that matter and it will take purely logical decisions that are highly efficient and guide the country and its citizens towards prosperity. From a strictly decision making view point, there couldn’t be anything better.
But, there are two major problems with this idea. The first is that AI might end up deciding that we humans are just not worth it and could ensure our extinction or enslavement by various means. This has been shown countless times in movies.
The second problem, and something that most people don’t consider, is that the AI system would still need to be programmed periodically or at least done regular maintenance on and the people doing that would essentially be the ones with all the power. This would be an even smaller group of people and it could lead to a disastrous, dictatorial form of ‘government’.
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Considering the history of governments, the famines and numerous wars caused by them, it is definitely an interesting proposition to consider.
But then you may ask what guarantee is there the AIs of different governments won't compete and create the same nightmares of the past, albeit on a larger scale and more sophisticated level?
I am of the view that governments by AI is feasible if all nations agree to abide by the decisions of a single World government, representatives of which are elected by all the nations in the world. These representatives will be tasked with what need to be programmed into the AI so that the optimal results are obtained. .
If and when such a decision is made it is likely that it will initially start of with the world government having authority over only matters that have universal repercussions, like climate change, transportation, health, pollution and perhaps food security.
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