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Originally Posted by Locke
The fact of the matter is, its not even about 'Power Hungry People.' You put anyone in charge in a scenario like that and even if they werent Iron Fisted Despots to begin with, they soon will be.
Its basic Milgram Stanford Prison Experiment stuff.
Once power has been acquired, regardless of how, its felt and earned and then deserved and then everything goes straight to Hell.
Yeah...SkyNet isnt such a bad idea in retrospect. Maybe the Machines in the Matrix were on to something?
Oh. Sorry if thats too...'Childish and Sarcastic.'
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A decade ago IBM was already claiming that Watson (their AI) would be able to handle 95% of the role of of the president of the US and likely do a better job of it than a human. The 5% it couldn't do is walk around and shake hands.
Fast forward a decade and I absolutely think that if you could trust the team building the AI then you would be able to assemble an AI that could govern Alberta better than the UCP and perhaps better than any humans. With an AI, you could probably put an app on everyone's phones and when a big decision needs to be made you could push a notification to the population for a quick vote.
Essentially it is the path to the first true techno-democracy that would also be the most populist form of government that implements Direct Democracy (engaging the people in policy votes instead of representatives).
Imagine the cost savings if you got rid of all of the MLAs.