As the "cookie law" shows give a bureaucrat easier enforcement, you'll get more stupid laws enforced. The people who got them passed might be long gone from the

As the "cookie law" shows give a bureaucrat easier enforcement, you'll get more stupid laws enforced. The people who got them passed might be long gone from the system, but the laws would remain on the books and will be enforced more by more automation and AI. I agree that absolute control wouldn't be needed or enforced and freer societies would do better in the long run. But the main algorithm of populace control over the government can be broken by mass influence/mass control over voting systems. This is the thing that worries me most. Incumbents and people in power both benefit from the tools of automated enforcement of the laws so these would be invested in and improved.