Democracies normally have safeguards that prevent their military and intelligence apparatus from being turned inwards against their own population
I’m sure said democracies would safeguard against unelected officials disappearing trillions of taxpayer dollars to do shit like: Operation Mockingbird, Operation Northwoods, Operation CHAOS, COINTELPRO, MKUltra, NSA mass surveillance of citizens.
I’m sure their very democratic elections would mean you couldn’t have two parties’ “representatives” making millions by whoring out their votes to things like taking out loans to donate bombs to massacre tens of thousands of children regardless of what their electorate says.
I’m sure they would never support autocrats when it suited them nor forge false charges against countries as an excuse to conquer them.
I’m sure they wouldn’t interfere in others’ democracies like Ukraine’s by funding NGOs to influence elections and agitate riots.
I’m sure they wouldn’t pressure social media companies to censor citizens speaking true facts to influence an election in their own country.
If your “democracy” actually turned out to do all the above, then it would probably be better to do everything you possibly can to seek a common sense international monitorable and enforceable “slow-down-and-work-together” agreement among scientists to prevent any possible abuse as your first option, and leave the “Recklessly race towards giving AGI to the most hated empire in history” as Plan B. If we had literally no option but Plan B, it would be reassuring to at least hear the CEOs recognize the nigh-revolutionary changes it would take to prevent black-budget no-oversight non-elected historically ~evil gov’t organizations from abusing the tech.
I’m sure said democracies would safeguard against unelected officials disappearing trillions of taxpayer dollars to do shit like: Operation Mockingbird, Operation Northwoods, Operation CHAOS, COINTELPRO, MKUltra, NSA mass surveillance of citizens.
I’m sure their very democratic elections would mean you couldn’t have two parties’ “representatives” making millions by whoring out their votes to things like taking out loans to donate bombs to massacre tens of thousands of children regardless of what their electorate says.
I’m sure they would never support autocrats when it suited them nor forge false charges against countries as an excuse to conquer them.
I’m sure they wouldn’t interfere in others’ democracies like Ukraine’s by funding NGOs to influence elections and agitate riots.
I’m sure they wouldn’t pressure social media companies to censor citizens speaking true facts to influence an election in their own country.
If your “democracy” actually turned out to do all the above, then it would probably be better to do everything you possibly can to seek a common sense international monitorable and enforceable “slow-down-and-work-together” agreement among scientists to prevent any possible abuse as your first option, and leave the “Recklessly race towards giving AGI to the most hated empire in history” as Plan B. If we had literally no option but Plan B, it would be reassuring to at least hear the CEOs recognize the nigh-revolutionary changes it would take to prevent black-budget no-oversight non-elected historically ~evil gov’t organizations from abusing the tech.