I could have sworn you said “best”. One of the images sci-fi authors hold of AI is an intelligence you can direct to be fair. “Design a housing policy so it’s f

I could have sworn you said “best”. One of the images sci-fi authors hold of AI is an intelligence you can direct to be fair. “Design a housing policy so it’s fair to the highest number of people” Humans might claim we want fairness but our policies inevitably favor the people who make the policy. AI as an ostensibly objective party might be able to be more fair. Of course we probably won’t like it because when presented with objectively fair policies we’ll wonder why we can’t have policies that unfairly favor our group anymore. For example a fair housing policy will probably favor people who don’t have a lot of power. Think for a moment about who that is and you’ll prove my point.