The latest issue of COMPASS, The Global Voice of Professional Futurists is out and we talk about Collapse! Check it out on Association of Professional Futurists – APF.
It features articles from a range of outstanding futurists such as Wendy Schultz, Richard Hames, Riane Eisler, Christopher Jones, Andrew Curry, Patricia Lustig, Gill Ringland, Elina Hiltunen, Dr. Monica Mastrantonio, Jeremy W., Ian Paterson, Graham Norris, Tracey Follows, Stephen Aguilar-Millan, Professor(Dr) Sanjay Kuma Rout, Wensupu(Wen) Yang, APF, Mathias Behn Bjørnhof, Mark Frauenfelder, Sarah Holbrook MS, MPS, APF.
I personally contributed a piece on the future of democracy in the AI age… The timing of publication couldn’t be more relevant this Super Tuesday week, with the Supreme Court ruling to keep Donald Trump on the 2024 presidential ballot. What do you think of appointing an “AI-powered country leader” out of crowdsourced preferences?
I invite you to read my fiction “Wisdom of code”.
📖 The story follows a team composed of scientific advisors and tech visionaries embarking on an ambitious last-ditch project to save democracy: present an AGI (Artificial General Intelligence) presidential candidate for the 2032 elections.
I wrote this piece with the ambition to envision a possible pathway to Artificial General Intelligence while focusing on politics, as we currently witness the exponential development of a form of artificial intelligence (namely generative AI), anticipate potential risks, and attempt to define a robust ethical framework.
Through the speculative fiction format, I invite you to reevaluate the notions of democracy, technocracy, oligarchy, and plutocracy, and as a few tech billionaires follow their ideal of government on the principles of “wisdom of crowd”.
As you ponder this possible scenario, here are some questions to consider asking yourself, individually or collectively:
– Can we leverage the most advanced artificial intelligence developments in the field of politics?
– What would be the benefits and weaknesses of a non-human/artificial leader?
– What would be the shape and features of an AI-powered leader?
– What would be the project milestones of creating an AI-powered leader?
– What key factors might make us lose control over an AGI project?
– How can we improve our democratic system through artificial intelligence?
– How can we ensure the safe development of an AGI?
– Are there limitations to a genuine “wisdom of crowds?”
– Given AI is run with our human intentions embedded in it, is there even a possibility of uprooting human intentionality?
– How do we encode ethics and humaneness in our digital DNA?
🌏Thank you Stephen Dupont, APR, Fellow PRSA and the editorial team for featuring my story and sharing our voices of futurists with the world.
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