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This is my take on it. A government with an AI army is free to suppress its populace. A government with a human army may suppress its populace, but the army ca
by SubiculumCode 8y ago
This is my take on it.
A government with an AI army is free to suppress its populace.
A government with a human army may suppress its populace, but the army can refuse to do so.
Civilian control of the military, and a military that is composed of citizens (particularly in a democratic republic) may not choose to obey an order to suppress fellow citizens. An AI army would (presumably) have no conscience.
- abecedarius 8y agoNote that this point matters even short of full automation: the fewer people a state needs to rely on, the more tyrannical it can be. (Yes, there have been plenty of horrors with mass participation.)