Eventually, it won’t matter what people trust. Our opinions will matter about as much as a pet gerbil best case, or bugs to be exterminated in the worst case. I’m sure everybody’s aware of how things can go wrong, but here’s an author talking about his series where the various AIs like us and keep us around:
The essay talks about the political structure that he thinks would arise in that situation, and I tend to agree with his conclusions, assuming we don’t go down the paperclip route.
Eventually, it won’t matter what people trust. Our opinions will matter about as much as a pet gerbil best case, or bugs to be exterminated in the worst case. I’m sure everybody’s aware of how things can go wrong, but here’s an author talking about his series where the various AIs like us and keep us around:
http://www.vavatch.co.uk/books/banks/cultnote.htm
The essay talks about the political structure that he thinks would arise in that situation, and I tend to agree with his conclusions, assuming we don’t go down the paperclip route.