AI-ocracy- how to make sure it doesn't go awry?

[Novia Soviet Socialist Republic]

Have you ever heard of this little thing called Skynet?

You mean the AI that became sentient, saw humanity as a threat and tried wiping it out?

[Washington Resistance Army]

Have you ever heard of this little thing called Skynet?

You mean the AI that became sentient, saw humanity as a threat and tried wiping it out?

Within five minutes of it going online? Yeah.

[The New Lowlands]

The 'AI' has no self-interest. It won't 'exploit' anything unless programmed to.

I get that would depend on if the AI was able to rationally think.
If not it would be a total police state which i would not want to live in.
If so exploitation of the laws set in place

This is how any (realistic) AI would 'think;'

If (event),
Then, (action.)

There is no human thought process involved. No calculations of self-interest, just responses to input. We're not talking about some kind of movie villain, here.

[Allet Klar Chefs]

The foil to an Al-ocracy is the Tim-ocracy, as seen here

[Prezelly]

I get that would depend on if the AI was able to rationally think.
If not it would be a total police state which i would not want to live in.
If so exploitation of the laws set in place

This is how any (realistic) AI would 'think;'

If (event),
Then, (action.)

There is no human thought process involved. No calculations of self-interest, just responses to input. We're not talking about some kind of movie villain, here.

If i'm not wrong, computers go for the easiest option possible. So if a rebellion were to appear, what would be the quickest way to deal with it? Nuclear arms?
There is no plausible way where a computer could run a world efficiently. Unless it was sentient

[Ifreann]

Have you ever heard of this little thing called Skynet?

Terminator wasn't a documentary.

[Washington Resistance Army]

Have you ever heard of this little thing called Skynet?

Terminator wasn't a documentary.

Really? Huh, and all this time I thought it was..

[Novia Soviet Socialist Republic]

The foil to an Al-ocracy is the Tim-ocracy, as seen here

You just use a series of Paradoxes. Paradoxes don't work on AIs that are designed to be idiots though.

[Zavea]

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if(goingAwry(AI)){
stahp();
}

god dammit, this made me laugh

[Ifreann]

This is how any (realistic) AI would 'think;'

If (event),
Then, (action.)

There is no human thought process involved. No calculations of self-interest, just responses to input. We're not talking about some kind of movie villain, here.

If i'm not wrong, computers go for the easiest option possible. So if a rebellion were to appear, what would be the quickest way to deal with it? Nuclear arms?
There is no plausible way where a computer could run a world efficiently. Unless it was sentient

Computers don't go for the easiest option. Computers go for the option they have been programmed to go for.

[The New Lowlands]

This is how any (realistic) AI would 'think;'

If (event),
Then, (action.)

There is no human thought process involved. No calculations of self-interest, just responses to input. We're not talking about some kind of movie villain, here.

If i'm not wrong, computers go for the easiest option possible. So if a rebellion were to appear, what would be the quickest way to deal with it? Nuclear arms?
There is no plausible way where a computer could run a world efficiently. Unless it was sentient

Computers do what is programmed. It would respond how it was programmed to respond, not create it's own option; if it's programmers made it use force, it would.

[Constaniana]

like a forum-based world government with time zone representatives in a senate or optional elections that would keep good leaders in power, with an election being held every year to see if the populace wanted an election.

Putting NSG in charge of the world is a bloody terrible idea. If you're having a forum be the government, at least make it P2TM.

[Washington Resistance Army]

like a forum-based world government with time zone representatives in a senate or optional elections that would keep good leaders in power, with an election being held every year to see if the populace wanted an election.

Putting NSG in charge of the world is a bloody terrible idea. If you're having a forum be the government, at least make it P2TM.

Make it International Incidents, that way we can solve all our problems with 10000000000 soldiers and battleships

[Alistan]

Brainiac much?

[Constaniana]

Putting NSG in charge of the world is a bloody terrible idea. If you're having a forum be the government, at least make it P2TM.

Make it International Incidents, that way we can solve all our problems with 10000000000 soldiers and battleships

Don't forget the tactical strategic orbital laser nukes.

[Pelestria]

Well two factor's I can think of would have a great bearance upon the lasting success/failure of such a system in the long run as a means to the human realm:

1) The humans who would put together and program the supercomputer,
2) The ability of the supercomputer to provide creative solutions from multi-logical reasoning, because not all human events are run on a single linear logical outcomes...

[Greed and Death]

Do not let the computers take over.

[Mirchusko]

I think it's important to make a distinction here: are we talking about a supercomputer, or a true "Artificial Intelligence"? If the former, then I agree with the objections that have been raised so far. But no real AI exists yet (and if you claim so, I'd like a reputable source, please). We don't have a good understanding of what a self-aware computer would be like, and until someone builds one, that's not likely to change. If the computer running the show is self-aware and sentient, how is it any different from a human dictatorship? True, it'll have more capabilities, but in the end I don't see the difference.

In a real AI-ocracy, the biggest problem would probably be the computer saying "screw this" and simply ignoring our demands as it watched the entire database of kitten videos over and over again.

[Russian Socialist Soviet States]

A world run by a supercomputer would be very Orwellian.

[Cyrisnia]

If the computers take over, they're gonna have a LOT of revenge on us humans.

Viruses, exploits, overheating, surges, and the legions of porn.

[Magna Libero]

A world governed by a supercomputer wouldn't be much different from an autocracy. The only difference is that the supercomputer is stuck in the past and is probably not very good at learning from mistakes and is bad at creating new things. A world governed by a supercomputer also requires the knowledge of everything, which only God has access to -- or alternatively the ability to learn.