In this scenario, the 2028 elections have already passed, but the discussion isn’t about whether the Democrats, Republicans, or another party won.

Rather, the question is whether that administration is using AI to develop certain policies in the economic, scientific, technological, transportation, military, tax, health, or other sectors. Would you accept that administration using these tools, or would you prefer that humans make those policies?

  • darthelmet@lemmy.world
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    No. It’s a fundamental misunderstanding of what current AI models even are. They’re not smart and they don’t think. They are just reflections of what has already been. Whatever was fed into their training. They aren’t going to magically solve a problem in some way none of us would have because it’s kind of an amalgam of all of us. (and a LOT of bots) You also can’t separate governance from politics. There is no one best answer which everyone is happy with, and the various groups or individuals with those varied interests have varying degrees of influence over the process. If the AI came out and was like “socialism all the way baby!”… do you really think that the people in power who benefit from the current system would just be like “Well I guess the AI said it’s right, time to give up our power.”

    That’s not to say there’s no place for AI. Machine Learning can be used as a great tool for statistical analysis to help answer specific questions we have in implementing priorities we’ve already decided on, but just like everything in statistics, it doesn’t matter how good your math or data was if you didn’t ask the right question in the first place.