> Smarter people have better outcomes in almost every domain of activity I see a fundamental conflict between (likely political) camps here; one of the most pr

> Smarter people have better outcomes in almost every domain of activity I see a fundamental conflict between (likely political) camps here; one of the most prominent and valid concerns against AI is that it's going to focus disproportionately large amount of power to a fewer number of people. This violates the very assumption of democracy itself. It might be a bit more efficient but remember that the strength of democracy is not known as its short-term efficiency but its resilience by avoiding a single point of failure. And that failure includes all the social discontent and instability coming from inequal distribution of wealth and power. This is not a new thing; we've already learned this from blood long time ago and I don't think it's necessary to repeat the history. I don't want to be a doomsayer, but at least I guess it's reasonable to say that we need to prepare some sort of rail guard to avoid this kind of obvious bad outcome.