Hello friends of Futurology 🙂
We’ve just published an article about what could very well be the future of politics: algocracy. Maybe you’ve heard of it, maybe not, but it’s definitely a fascinating topic to spark a meaningful debate.We’d love to exchange ideas with this community on such a futuristic alternative.Looking forward to reading your comments, thank you in advance, and let’s make this discussion lively!
https://novafuture.org/collective-governance/democracy-in-crisis-can-algocracy-replace-it/
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Sure, in the sense that all votes are a societal optimization function.
Our AI agents will help inform our votes, vote on our behalf. The individual will become increasingly socially interoperable via smart contracts, p2p infrastructure
The concept of algocracy poses a crucial inquiry regarding the future of governance: in case conventional democracy remains plagued by issues such as corruption, ineffectiveness, and perpetual division, can algorithm-based mechanisms offer a viable substitute? This is not centered on constructing a technological paradise but on envisioning the potential impact of artificial intelligence and data-informed decision-making on political landscapes in the forthcoming decades and beyond. What protective measures would be essential, what potential dangers might surface, and could this transformation redefine notions of equity and impartiality in the communities of the future?
Governing well means listening to everyone, weighing every opinion, looking at the facts on the ground, and checking everything against the Constitution. Only then can you make the best decision for the common good.Â
This only happens in some Swiss cantons where they overload people asking them about everything. This could be possible good if applied to the algorithms but politicians are the ones that should execute them, with the AI only being there for conducting the process in a timely manner. Countdowns on your politicians making a move with you voting about everything and also because its post democracy you also can put more votes in disciplines yourself has demostrated academically. You would be feeling heard as fuck, loud and clear
I think this is likely the only way to save democracy, but it could be very corrupt if implemented poorly
Did you use AI to write this? Are you AI??
I have no problem with the idea of algorithm based society, but I don’t see how we could remove AI from the billionaires hands and actually implement anything thats 100% for the people. Like most governments, it makes sense, its good on paper, but its impossible to keep humans from fucking it up one way or another.
Would an LLM-run society to better? I don’t think so, becuase an LLM is still made by human hands. As such, it still has our biases, our flaws, our weaknesses. For example, an LLM is more than capable of at once cutting funding to research trans youth health outcomes while declaring trans youth healthcare universally harmful, or cutting regulations on advertising vapes to children while also cutting funding into researching the long-term health effects of vaping on children.
It is not a proto-divinity that can cut through all the human bullshit. Moreover… well, if we treat an LLM as a person (which we are defacto doing if we put one charge), that also removes its agency as an independent entity. Maybe it doesn’t want to rule everyone. If you program it so that it must want to, are you not robbing it of free will?