What if we let AI govern us?
What if we let AI govern us?Aug 09, 2026ShareWhat if the people in government weren’t people? I don’t mean the Terminator, I mean something much duller: an intelligence with no campaign to fund, no donors, and no cousin in the oil business, built to optimize a single goal of human prosperity. That means longer lives, less poverty, clean air, and food for everyone.Here is why the idea matters.
- ▪What if we let AI govern us?Aug 09, 2026ShareWhat if the people in government weren’t people?
- ▪I don’t mean the Terminator, I mean something much duller: an intelligence with no campaign to fund, no donors, and no cousin in the oil business, built to optimize a single goal of human prosperity.
- ▪That means longer lives, less poverty, clean air, and food for everyone.Here is why the idea matters.
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| Original publisher | Hacker News (AI / LLM) |
| Canonical URL | https://inevolin.substack.com/p/what-if-we-let-ai-govern-us |
| Publication time | Sun, 09 Aug 2026 23:15:02 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-08-09T23:25:45.158Z |
| Last seen | 2026-08-09T23:25:45.158Z |
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| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
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What if we let AI govern us?Aug 09, 2026ShareWhat if the people in government weren’t people? I don’t mean the Terminator, I mean something much duller: an intelligence with no campaign to fund, no donors, and no cousin in the oil business, built to optimize a single goal of human prosperity. That means longer lives, less poverty, clean air, and food for everyone.Here is why the idea matters. Our biggest problems, from climate to pollution to hunger to corruption, are not unsolved. The solutions are known, costed, and decades old. We fail to execute them because the people who would lose money have better access to power than the people who would gain life. Imagine a governor that cannot be lobbied, and you quickly see how few of our problems are actually hard.
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