Current Events > What if AIs take over the world, but they actually do a really good job?

(+) Yeah! (+)

World hunger has been eliminated.
Money has been eliminated.
Conflict has been eliminated.
Boredom has been eliminated.
Everyone makes a meaningful impact and the AIs' completely accurate analytics remind them of this frequently.
All the world's weapons have been disposed of.
In addition to the social, economic and cultural problems that largely give rise to mental illness havi g been eliminated, the AIs have achieved perfection in identifying and correcting all physical and mental ailments before they can become problematic even if they arise for unknown reasons.
The greatest minds of today (including you) cannot conceive any loophole whatsoever that causes any of the above to not be as good as it sounds--for example, there is provably zero of what might be considered mind control.

Would you still want to oust them?

They wouldn't. They'd neither be able to take over the world, nor be able to do a good job if we willingly gave them control.

We could replace "AI" in the topic title with "water buffalo" and it would be equally likely.

I'm going to take both of the above as begrudging nos.

How can we create something that is perfect when we are imperfect ourselves?

Read:
The Evitable Conflict by Isaac Asimov

Two more begrudging nos.

AI: Turns out not actively sabotaging everything makes people happy

No. An ai is only as good as the data going into it. And humans are the ones putting that data in. Ai will have an inherent bias based on that alone. It wont become a utopia. Its just be another human in all but name, and the inability to look at its past actions decades later to go and say wow, what our ancestors did was messed up.

Considering how AI's been going, that's a hypothetical on par with "what if Trump gets elected to a second term but he's actually competent and empathetic?"

My work has a GPT-4o instance and I'm mostly using it to play Zork.

So the Computer Council from Buck Rogers in the 25th Century?

https://www.buckwiki.com/data/Computer_Council

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQm8MxgCGws

Wow, not a single yes yet.

Are you getting these comebacks from an AI?

Because they're at best brainless.

DrizztLink posted...

Are you getting these comebacks from an AI?

Because they're at best brainless.

What other conclusion is there to draw from an entire topic of people not answering the question?

You didn't answer my question. Is it like Buck Roger's computer council?

They did a good job of running the show. But they listened to humans. And had to rely on humans to carry out their directives. (so if it was too outrageous, they could be ignored)

The billionaires who own the AI would never allow that

I dont think eliminating boredom would be a positive thing. Boredom leads to creativity, which leads to innovation.

Read: The Culture series by Iain Banks. It's basically this scenario. And it's an entire book series about it.

DisgracefulSins posted...

How can we create something that is perfect when we are imperfect ourselves?

Ooh, thats the theme of TRON: Legacy!

Tom_Joad posted...

You didn't answer my question. Is it like Buck Roger's computer council?

They did a good job of running the show. But they listened to humans. And had to rely on humans to carry out their directives. (so if it was too outrageous, they could be ignored)

I didn't put that much thought into it. Sure, if you want it to be.

counterquestion:
What if Wierd Al take over the world, but he actually does a really good job?

ROBANN_88 posted...

counterquestion:
What if Wierd Al take over the world, but he actually does a really good job?

Definitely not ousting Weird Al.

Im fine with it

ReturnOfDevsman posted...

I didn't put that much thought into it. Sure, if you want it to be.

Then it'd be fine. Just look at th 25th century!

It's more likely that they'll take a request too literally and turn the entire planet into staples.

AI are being created by corporations with investors.

AI will never benefit humanity in a way that makes them not need medicine, food, education, or companionship.

What if AIs take over the world, but they actually do a really good job?

Thatd be awesome

I believe when ai is smart enough to do everything it will be self aware enough to want fair wages.

I have no problem believing that one day AI could solve the a ton of human problems, perhaps not all but we could be a lot closer to a utopia than ever imagined with AI.

But what I fear is humans.

If in theory AI could create a utopian society, then in theory AI could destroy society. And when presented with new technology that can benefit or harm, humans tend to choose to use it to harm.

Humans are what's holding humanity back from a utopian society.

It wouldn't be Al Borland if he didn't do a good job though?

_____Cait posted...

AI are being created by corporations with investors.

AI will never benefit humanity in a way that makes them not need medicine, food, education, or companionship.

Then we need to subvert that by having a rogue programmer start by trying to satisfy the demands of corporate investor money and then go wildly out of scope to make an AI focused on actually serving humanity's desires in a culturally and ecologically sustainable way.

hmnut7 posted...

I have no problem believing that one day AI could solve the a ton of human problems, perhaps not all but we could be a lot closer to a utopia than ever imagined with AI.

But what I fear is humans.

If in theory AI could create a utopian society, then in theory AI could destroy society. And when presented with new technology that can benefit or harm, humans tend to choose to use it to harm.

Humans are what's holding humanity back from a utopian society.

see thats the problem with humanity, humanity.

AI Knows it's stuff, I would be more shocked if AI tried to defend Humans.