Could you explain in what sense politicians and others outsourced thinking before the rise of AI? Did you mean that people rarely think about things which aren’t in their areas of expertise and defer to experts?
Politicians, at least in the US, deferred and continue to defer heavily to both lobbyist and their staff. Politicians themselves have to spend a lot of time fundraising and building relationships and don’t have a lot of time to actually spend on policy, so they rely on many others to tell them what policies would be good and, importantly, which policies their constituents want and will be more likely to reelect them for helping to enact.
Could you explain in what sense politicians and others outsourced thinking before the rise of AI? Did you mean that people rarely think about things which aren’t in their areas of expertise and defer to experts?
Politicians, at least in the US, deferred and continue to defer heavily to both lobbyist and their staff. Politicians themselves have to spend a lot of time fundraising and building relationships and don’t have a lot of time to actually spend on policy, so they rely on many others to tell them what policies would be good and, importantly, which policies their constituents want and will be more likely to reelect them for helping to enact.