No. In fact, not only no, but <insert expletive-laden but not-acceptable-language-for-HN negative>.
I do not want vibe-coding the law, especially criminal law. I do not want vibe-coding the tax rules. I do not want vibe-coding traffic safety.
And, in fact, we won't be governed by AI, even if we are. If we're governed by AI, we're really governed by whoever trained the AI, and/or whoever curated the training data. Do we want to be governed by them? Again, no, with expletives.
Humans are terrible at it. There's a short sci fi story where an AI selects the next American President from all 350M citizens. I'm here for it. I think it's a fantastic idea.
I'd argue that the populace is "ready" to be governed by the arbitrary whims of those in power, be it masked federal agents taking people off streets to social media peddling influence to the highest bidder to corporate structures determining financial and health outcomes, all the way up to the executives and board members behind all of these decisions. So if those arbitrary whims outsource decision-making power to some gpu farms, who's to say we aren't ready?
About Saturday Night Live they say, "The show doesn't start because it's ready, it starts because it's 11:30."
We're not going to be governed by AI because we're ready, it's going to be because the people who own it have secured enough power to make it happen. Whether it takes the form of government or capitalism.
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[ 3.3 ms ] story [ 20.0 ms ] threadOf course it will be every bit as bad as the people who implement it. But that just kinda highlights the core problem.
I do not want vibe-coding the law, especially criminal law. I do not want vibe-coding the tax rules. I do not want vibe-coding traffic safety.
And, in fact, we won't be governed by AI, even if we are. If we're governed by AI, we're really governed by whoever trained the AI, and/or whoever curated the training data. Do we want to be governed by them? Again, no, with expletives.
We're not going to be governed by AI because we're ready, it's going to be because the people who own it have secured enough power to make it happen. Whether it takes the form of government or capitalism.