Governing Society and Artificial Intelligence
Much of the hype and chatter around Artificial Intelligence today is how it will impact the workplace, the entertainment industry, human creativity and productivity. Increasingly, there are debates on ethics, human rights and human agency. These are important. But what about how we govern our societies with AI?
Social governance is an element of culture which also includes economic systems, family systems, politics, militaries, art, architecture and literature. Sometimes, such as in a democracy, we have a say in these systems. In dictatorships, we do not.
The mechanism by which we create and operate our social governance systems is bureaucracy. Which were well honed by corporations and go back many thousands of years. One might suggest that bureaucracy was humanity’s first multiplayer game.
Humans have been fiddling about with all kinds of different governance systems for thousands of years, including hunter-gatherer and foraging societies. When we collectively decide we’re no longer thrilled with whatever system, we either run away and create something else or we have revolutions and whoever wins creates something new. The one constant? Bureaucracies. Rinse, wash, repeat.
With the advent of Generative AI (GAI) through Large Language Models (LLMs) like ChatGPT, humanity finally had an…
