It’s interesting that some state, perhaps the EU, hasn’t tried to draft laws against this. It’s obviously really bad, especially long term.
If I interact with an AI in the near future and it’s secret agenda is to mislead and/or non-transparently incentivise options where the AI (or owner) benefits at my expense, we have a grim world ahead, as it’s capabilities and scope of interactions increase.
Hint: This has been happening for two decades already with targeted advertising.
It’s funny because this actually breaks democracy entirely (it’s already broken). Imagine for $1,000 I can influence the votes of 10,000,000 people to my favour by telling them what the need to hear to vote my way. I imagine we will need a replacement for democracy this century - exactly what? I don’t know.
And if you don’t think people can’t be mislead by mass - just look at Covid. Regardless if you think Covid19 is as deadly as told, or vaccines as safe as told - it fooled many into forgetting to think for themselves, and make a self-judgement call. People are easily led by fear - especially en masse.
What do you mean imagine? You just described the system we have today.
One side promises to give away 50% of your money to their supporters and the other side promises to only give away 47% to theirs.
Governance at the scale of millions of people doesn’t work. The nation state is forcing it to happen on the scale of tens and hundreds of millions and look at the results - no-one is happy but the power structures become thoroughly entrenched and just parasitically leak away our wealth for their benefit.
:) By “imagine”, I mean an irreversible change that is spurred on by something typically outside the current system, that the system cannot control or outlast/survive.
An example of this is simply Bitcoin. Bitcoin will eat the runaway inflationary system.
If you asked most people today globally; they believe in democracy as an alternative to fascism/socialism/communism, and that their vote, if they choose to, matters (even if in a small way). Certainly far fewer people believe that in certain countries, however democracy is typically not blamed, corruption or a dictator is blamed. It’s not a ‘fair democracy’ is the typical defence. Democracy is the gold standard for a free society (not saying I agree).
Yet, no democracy is fair, and freedoms are gradually abolished by a process of aggregated edge-case law creation and politicians with ulterior motives.
Democracy is broken and doesn’t meet its claimed coordination or social benefit properties - but it was also an improvement over other mass governance systems. It’s just starting to fail very slowly.
What is democracy’s better alternative - and what will spur the change needed for adoption? Smaller privately run estates is all I’m aware of being proposed.
I’m starting to imagine how AI will break democracy’s back and cripple it for good. Sure politicians lying and never delivering isn’t great for trust - however the ML models can lie beyond a common mass broadcasted message (or set) - it can “target individuals and tell them what they personally need to hear to be swayed”. Just like suggesting you purchase a specific vacuum from a company.
AI encourages people to think (critically) less. Shortest, fastest answer. It may not be AI itself that’s dangerous - but how it indirectly changes peoples behaviour.
