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Ved Shankar's avatar

When I read this, it reminds me of the anime Psycho Pass where a city is governed by an AI god that acts as judge, jury and executioner across all forms of government (including death sentences)

How do you think about bias when taking AI's help with legislation?

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Daniel Sisson's avatar

Hey Ved, we'd have to do our best to either have an AI with as little bias as possible, OR make sure it's biases are aligned with our own values and biases

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Jude Klinger's avatar

What could possibly go wrong? While I agree with much of your assessment of what is wrong with our current iteration of democracy, my faith in AI isn't there yet. And surely AI can and will be manipulated. I'm seeing it like driver-less cars, people are working on it, but we aren't there yet.

My oh my...we do live in interesting times! Thank you for sharing this thought provoking piece!

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Daniel Sisson's avatar

Oh there's no way we could put ChatGPT 4 in charge of the government, but some later version that's open sourced and for the benefit of all. Yeah, I think we could. Driverless car example is great. Like it's heading in that direction but not there yet.

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