Feels very different, since MAD means you really need the authority to launch nukes on a faster turnaround than a global referendum. But deciding what values you want to give an AI seems like it would require inherently much less time pressure (there might be human-created reasons for time pressure, like arms race dynamics, but I expect in the worlds where you are rushing forward so quickly that you have to make decisions about your AIs values remotely at the speed at which you have to make the decisions to launch nukes, you have basically no shot at surviving and propagating human values anyways).
We don’t have a referendum on any country’s first or second strike policies either.
I’m basically saying in practice we rarely have referendums on anything, and getting one to happen requires an unusual amount of coordinated rebellion against whoever the current leader is.
It’s usually a handful of elites who get votes or money and then do whatever. Selecting a leader is already the result of this whole power strugggle.
A leader will just say that if you don’t like their values then you shouldn’t have voted for them.
Another datapoint: how social media gets governed under Trump or Biden admin.
Feels very different, since MAD means you really need the authority to launch nukes on a faster turnaround than a global referendum. But deciding what values you want to give an AI seems like it would require inherently much less time pressure (there might be human-created reasons for time pressure, like arms race dynamics, but I expect in the worlds where you are rushing forward so quickly that you have to make decisions about your AIs values remotely at the speed at which you have to make the decisions to launch nukes, you have basically no shot at surviving and propagating human values anyways).
We don’t have a referendum on any country’s first or second strike policies either.
I’m basically saying in practice we rarely have referendums on anything, and getting one to happen requires an unusual amount of coordinated rebellion against whoever the current leader is.
It’s usually a handful of elites who get votes or money and then do whatever. Selecting a leader is already the result of this whole power strugggle.
A leader will just say that if you don’t like their values then you shouldn’t have voted for them.
Another datapoint: how social media gets governed under Trump or Biden admin.