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>I am looking forward for a day where policy making is aided by AI or some advanced modeling that estimates impact over long time spans. Who sets the incentive
by darebak 5y ago
>I am looking forward for a day where policy making is aided by AI or some advanced modeling that estimates impact over long time spans.
Who sets the incentives for the AI? What are we measuring? GDP? "Happiness"? "Goodness"? "Sustainability"?
AI overlords are foremost a philosophical problem, then technological.
I fail to see how those situations you presented would be better with AI dictators.
- marcyb5st 5y agoI said aided, I am not pushing for AI to control our lives. I am arguing for having tools (I mentioned AI and modeling) that could help legislators have a more quantitative measure of how things will change long term. Even better if the forecasts are shared with the public. I am optimistic, and I hope that if back in the 80s the Italian government would have seen the "we are gonna impact in a negative ways the next 2 generations by doing this" they wouldn't have followed through. The goodness, Happiness, sustainability, ... are still in the hands of legislators. In my mind, before proposing something for approval, they can ask the mentioned "oracle" and see how things turn out according to a variety of metrics. We are years/decades to have such predicting power, but that's what I hope to see in the future.