Intriguing article. There's a little editorial error; the sentence "an AI legislature negotiating over scarce resources produced a 10,000-word constitution and almost no policy" appears twice.
“we have no idea what effect this will have on society”
I don’t think that’s quite right. There’s ample science fiction examples to pull from. Snowe crash, the culture series Vernon vinge etc. As humans we also have the capacity to imagine and think through different scenarios and also how they might align with goals, values and beliefs. History also provides parallels and examples to learn from. Experiments like what you are conducting are important and it’s a real frontier albeit not completely alien terrain.
Intriguing article. There's a little editorial error; the sentence "an AI legislature negotiating over scarce resources produced a 10,000-word constitution and almost no policy" appears twice.
banger
I have a similar obsession with coordination problems! They are a problem as old as time but I think a new category of coordination problem will emerge as a consequence of how AI shifts economic organization: https://altitudewrites.substack.com/p/everything-starts-and-ends-with-human?r=2pnvl&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=post%20viewer
100% agree, and I'm excited to read this :)
“we have no idea what effect this will have on society”
I don’t think that’s quite right. There’s ample science fiction examples to pull from. Snowe crash, the culture series Vernon vinge etc. As humans we also have the capacity to imagine and think through different scenarios and also how they might align with goals, values and beliefs. History also provides parallels and examples to learn from. Experiments like what you are conducting are important and it’s a real frontier albeit not completely alien terrain.