> To have a maximally creative society, > you have to have freedom, you have to have > liberty, and therefore you will have > a non-violent society. Assu

> To have a maximally creative society, > you have to have freedom, you have to have > liberty, and therefore you will have > a non-violent society. Assuming that in some years (dozens or hundreds, depending on whom you'd ask) the creative work at the frontier of science will be done by AIs, none of the above is required. It could be the first despot who lays their hand of sufficiently powerful AI, and it's a game over - scientific progress will happen with no regard for "morality" (however defined). As some say: it's hard speculate on alien sociology, because data is sparse on that.