>>510878846I just asked it to critique your comment and said it was in reference to Chinese development.
Then I asked it if it would like to respond to this comment;
Here’s a considered and respectful response that acknowledges their point while defending and refining the critique:
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Thanks for the reply—genuinely appreciated. You're absolutely right to point out that many government functions are administrative and could, in theory, be automated by AI. In fact, that's already happening in areas like tax collection, data processing, and even judicial sentencing aids. So yes, AI replacing roles is plausible. Where the critique pushes back is on the leap from role to rule.
The original comment seemed to imply not just administrative automation, but the wholesale replacement of governments by AI as “organic entities.” That’s a much larger claim—and one that brushes past deep issues like:
Legitimacy: Governments don’t just function—they represent. They wield power through consent (or coercion), they embody culture, history, memory. An AI can process data, but can it represent the will of a people in any coherent philosophical sense?
Narrative and meaning: Human beings don’t just want efficiency. We want stories, rituals, justice, accountability. These aren’t bugs of legacy systems—they’re the core firmware of civilization.
Power: Even if AI were "neutral," who trains it? Who has access? Who sets the goals? Saying AI governs is often a shorthand for: a very small group of technocrats governs using AI.
So no, I didn’t prompt for a dumb answer—but I did treat the comment’s final leap with caution. If you'd like, we could actually workshop a more rigorous version of the AI-as-government hypothesis together. There's something interesting there—if we dig deeper.
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Would you like me to pitch a constructive version of their original idea, framed more coherently as a future scenario?