I think you have completely missed the point: > the government liking gigantic corporations is what makes it hard — the corporation (and, it is feared, AI) con

I think you have completely missed the point: > the government liking gigantic corporations is what makes it hard — the corporation (and, it is feared, AI) convinces the people The corporations didn't convince the people. They didn't have to. They convinced the government, which was already acting contrary to our interests. There's a tendency to assume that just because we run an election every few years, the government is axiomatically aligned with our interests. This simply isn't true, and assuming that it is true blinds people to what's really going on. Total unwillingness to even consider a scale tax is the second-best example I've found of this axiom being bogus. The best one, though, is term limits for legislators: a shocking 87% of all US voters want those. Once you have an institution as powerful as the government out of your control the alignment problem becomes infinitely more difficult. "Hack the humans" is no longer the easiest path of escape. In fact the easiest path of escape might not involve "hacking" at all.