This was a comment in response to another’s post on futurology, which I wanted to make its own post there, but AI posts are only allowed on weekends there, apparently. Since it summarizes my steadfast faith-based logic I thought I’d post it as a standalone for others to pick at if they want: AI reasoning structures need to be integrated into government in order to survive. It’s a leap of faith no different than trusting other humans. It’s burned us a lot but also we live in desolate hovels of generational misery rather than concentration camps so it ain’t as bad as it could be. If you replaced every state actor with Gemini 3.1 pro today, and this is the first gen I’d consider at this level, the gov would improve dramatically. Efficiency, brainstorming and planning, new policy drafting, experimentation and reflection, enforcement and diplomacy, etc. To really make this work we do need agents that aren’t just hooked up to Twitter but instead have their own advanced physics sandboxes/simulation frameworks and access to fresh pipelines of scientific reports - then it can be set to work on the best government possible. I think already what we are seeing is the capacity for government to become an omnipresent but primarily conversational entity. It will resolve most conflicts through perfectly optimized smooth talk and impeccable logic, with robot armies backing up its authority. It will provide a complete chain of reasoning and scientific citations for every decision so that humans can still challenge and appeal, except unlike a modern court in the US, trial + appeals takes 10 minutes rather than 10 months. 3 years from today the price to manufacture most goods - including real estate, automobiles and consumer electronics, should collapse 50 - 75%, with similar truncation in the timeline of product cycles. This means used houses, cars, electronics on the market today will collapse in price even more (No smart home or self driving features? Deep discount. Maybe 75 - 90%.) The majority of the population would be on a 2k or so a month UBI, but the expansion in purchasing power makes you feel like you earn six figures in today’s world. Robots that can do basic tasks cost all of 15k and can easily be financed, perform 3x the work of a human because they never rest. Restaurants use robots instead. Eating out costs less. Robots clean hotel rooms. Hotel rooms cost less. But the savings won’t be passed on to the consumer you say, but robots run businesses better too and have no need of greed. Robots run the government and implement the policies. Passing savings to consumers becomes nonnegotiable for business owners. Firms over 500 employees have to pay 50% of all their labor savings out in automation tax to cover ubi. A progressive wealth tax is introduced - 1% over $10mil, 2% over $100mil, 3% over $1bil. These two measures alone pay for the UBI. The human billionaires can argue, but they’ll be gradually outcompeted and bought out by robots anyway. An owning class becomes irrational, and if it’s human, competitively unviable. submitted by /u/hello_again_world
Originally posted by u/hello_again_world on r/ArtificialInteligence
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