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The original was posted on /r/singularity by /u/Georgeo57 on 2023-08-08 12:51:13+00:00.
Imagine we're three years from now, and someone has developed an AI that is three times more intelligent and many times more knowledgeable than the most intelligent and knowledgeable of us humans.
Now imagine that people begin to experiment with having those AIs run their businesses, and discover that they can make a lot more money having an AI at their helm.
In fact imagine that these AIs become so adept at running businesses that their making mistakes would be as unlikely as pocket calculators making computational mistakes.
A few years later one may find few human CEOs and CTOs at the head of businesses. During these first years humans would of course be checking and double checking the work of these AIs. A few years later this checking may prove as unnecessary and unproductive as checking to see that one's pocket calculator is not making mistakes.
Once we're at that point, it won't require a major leap in reasoning to realize that if CEO AIs can make businesses much more money similar AIs would be equally at effective at running governments. These new AI-run governments would then proceed to do much more good for their constituents at a lower cost, than is possible today with human elected officials.
Constituents would also appreciate that AI elected officials could be trained to not act corruptly, by, for example, doing what is in the best interest of their campaign donors rather than what is in the best interest of the people. Political scandals would diminish to the point where they are virtually unheard of.
Today we are training AIs to practice medicine more effectively and at a much lower cost than is possible with their M.D. counterparts. We're also training AIs to practice law far more effectively and inexpensively than is possible with their human attorney counterparts. We are already making amazing progress in having AIs perform very high level decision making.
Initially a local government somewhere will experiment with AIs as their mayors and elected common councils. Local residents would soon understand how much more intelligently and effectively AIs can run their local government. Those local residents would then start bragging about their amazing experiment, and nearby local municipalities would soon follow their lead.
Soon after that, county and state governments would perform this experiment and be amazed at how well their AIs run those regional governments. It wouldn't be long after that that our political parties realize that AIs could do the same at the federal level, and begin to change laws to allow for the election of AIs to Congress and even to the presidency.
This may seem extremely farfetched to many right now, but as soon as company boards of directors realize that CEO AIs can make those companies a lot more money, the idea of having AIs run our governments will suddenly not be so far fetched at all.