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First you make it easier to control the masses

THEN you make any kind of rules you want

Prevent any rebellion with AI

Install implants to people to further cement your control later. You won’t even need to do facial recognition.

There are essentially two options here:

1) A ruling class enforcing totally arbitrary rules on a society of “pets”

2) An AI that eventually makes the ruling class completely irrelevant

My main concern is that this AI will not be sensitive to what humans need or want and will cause a lot of mismatch that they won’t be able to get out of anymore. Revolution won’t be an option. You’re just stuck in a jail being controlled by a dumb AI that just prevents any way out of the jail.

There may be no more progress or advancement as this AI would not have any abilities or interest in any of that. Just a zoo of humans essentially.

We are already turning the entire planet into farms and monocultures.

And a zoo for ourselves is next. No matter what you do someone will invent autonomous X that will then set the standard for all human behavior. It will be so efficient as to notice when you did a tiny thing wrong and the penalties would be extracted via perfectly mapped system of rewards. It will know anyone who tried to help you out as well.

It’s just too “sweet”.



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