Heartless, rule-based, unappealable decisions have been a feature of human society for as long as there has been organized bureaucratic society. It is not the c

Heartless, rule-based, unappealable decisions have been a feature of human society for as long as there has been organized bureaucratic society. It is not the case that soft-hearted human bureaucrats are all that stands in the way of the Kafkaesque nightmare. If we want better social and political decisions, we have to engage in society and politics. The AI will follow what we decide, as it always does.