In "The Golden Oecumene" trilogy (one of the densest and greatest looks at a possible real future I've ever read), the world is run by a collection of benevolen

In "The Golden Oecumene" trilogy (one of the densest and greatest looks at a possible real future I've ever read), the world is run by a collection of benevolent super-intelligence AIs. One of the themes in the book is the notion of hyper-extending current technology trends and exploring what society will be like under such circumstances. In the series, the take on the military is fascinating. Extending out the notions of precision and limiting collateral damage, orbital weapons are able to take out specific neural connections in targets and cause them to change their thinking process entirely. While the weapons in this future picture are large automated robots and AIs of a type, the actual operator is human. In fact a single human is all that remains (and is needed) to provide all the judgment and justification needed to take action. But the books still posit that a human-in-the-loop is still necessary. Great and very challenging books https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Golden_Oecumene https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Golden_Oecumene