Using AI/ML to fix some edge problems with government would be so neat. My optimistic scenario is that AI/ML gets common enough that nobody thinks it’s weird, and then the state legislature of, say, California says, “How about we let an AI try to draw our Congressional districts?” and a nonpartisan committee comes up with a reasonably fair utility function, or maybe there’s even a statewide ranked-choice vote on ten different values for the AI to consider, and the AI gives back a map that everyone agrees is not perfect for their side but pretty close to fair.
It would almost be like seeing Rawls’ veil of ignorance play out in real life, if everyone is comfortable enough with AI in general to not reject whatever it comes up with just because they aren’t winning as much as they’d like to. (It’s possible that voters would be on board for this particular issue. Cyborg government! We’re not that far off.)
Yes-anding you: our limited ability to run “experiments” and easily get empirical results for policy initiatives seems to really hinder progress. Maybe AI can help us organize our values, simulate a bunch of policy outcomes, and then find the best win-win solution when our values diverge.
Using AI/ML to fix some edge problems with government would be so neat. My optimistic scenario is that AI/ML gets common enough that nobody thinks it’s weird, and then the state legislature of, say, California says, “How about we let an AI try to draw our Congressional districts?” and a nonpartisan committee comes up with a reasonably fair utility function, or maybe there’s even a statewide ranked-choice vote on ten different values for the AI to consider, and the AI gives back a map that everyone agrees is not perfect for their side but pretty close to fair.
It would almost be like seeing Rawls’ veil of ignorance play out in real life, if everyone is comfortable enough with AI in general to not reject whatever it comes up with just because they aren’t winning as much as they’d like to. (It’s possible that voters would be on board for this particular issue. Cyborg government! We’re not that far off.)
Yes-anding you: our limited ability to run “experiments” and easily get empirical results for policy initiatives seems to really hinder progress. Maybe AI can help us organize our values, simulate a bunch of policy outcomes, and then find the best win-win solution when our values diverge.