The citizens are already basically robots under 24/7 surveillance. What difference would it make whether they served a computer or a human as long as they bought food, reproduced, and didn’t jaywalk.?

Waiting for the day when AI can swing a pick axe and mine tungsten

This is a case of “throw away the guns and the war’s all gone.”

What good is the current AI? For private knowledge of curious citizens and education. Well the government owns education, basically, and the media will control the informing of citizens. I see this as an opportunity to bottleneck all of our new knowledge generation moreso than already exists with the university specialization system. We will all be informed by a centralized monopoly of knowledge owners. This will lead to a monopoly on our past, present and future. There may be less wars except between west and east…the final conflict. If we can all live globally in peace, then our survival will depend on this centralized knowledge center.

I think decentralization is a utopian fantasy. Look at any history book, the powerful have always been the minority and call all the shots. It’s baked into reality.

When everyone writes the “perfect” letters, then what would distinguish a good employee from a bad one? Will we become hypersensitive to minor flaws rather than appreciative of excellence?