As Tucker Carlson recently objected to AI vehicles on the roads and was lambasted with pejorative responses, I wanted to approach the subject from a different angle.
Centralization vs decentralization.
I think there is reason to pause a bit here.
AI-driven vehicles on the road is a systemic weakness. If they all have a bad update they may all stop or worse. Those of us who have worked in environments with automated systems have seen this over and over again.. If the systems get hacked, then what? A solar flare? Electric grid dependencies. Etc.
Human truckers form a more resilient structure; decentralized & flexible.
Let me make this very clear:
The central planning scenario IS to have government-controlled AI vehicles on the road.
The decentralized scenario is having autonomous, flexible human drivers on the road.
Let's explore this further:
Scenario A: The government becomes totalitarian and controls all AI trucker vehicles on the road.
Scenario B: The government becomes totalitarian and human sovereign truckers drive vehicles on the road.
Which is the central planning scenario here?
Which scenario have central chokepoint dependencies?
Which scenario is resilient?
The purpose of a free market is..
Liberty.
Liberty brings prosperity.
Prosperity does not necessarily bring liberty.
A centrally planned society is not a free market. A decentralized society can be a free market; it has the potential.
The question: how do we achieve a robust, decentralized society.
Under a central planning system, the markets are rigged and there is no real free market to speak of.
The dectralization point of having human workers in critical infrastructure is because they are sovereign, thinking, flexible individuals that can react rationally and individually to new problems and situations. AI can't do that.
Humans, with our diversity of outlooks, can't just be mass-programmed to perform orders via fiat decree, at least not by certain assumption. Orders have to pass a human proof-of-work, or as we may call it, a proof-of-bullshit-resilience filter; the human mind.
One of the greatest problems that humans may live to fight and solve, IS an automated, dictatorial central planning system. If we can't fight such a system, free markets have no future.
Government-controlled AI systems cannot solve that problem for us. Only sovereign humans can. Decentralized minds making local decisions based on local experience, insight and rapidly changing circumstances and new data.
