JHU Asst. Prof. @nickacaputo argues in his new Pax Machina essay that AGI won't kill bureaucracy: "Bureaucracy has evolved to be so prevalent because it's the most effective institutional form. All of the big companies are bureaucracies too. Government isn't the only one that uses bureaucracy, and that's just because it's better for processing information and handling today's challenges." "It's possible that AI and AGI will be used to build bureaucracy that ends up being less accountable, less transparent, just the government acting on people in increasingly severe and extensive ways." "But history shows that the law and new technologies can lead to more accountable and more, what I call scrutable, that is comprehensible forms of government." "That's the big promise we have to be pushing forward when we're building these new institutions."

Powerful AI will change our institutions. Yet most of our attention is on aligning or regulating AI, while treating our institutions as fixed. Introducing Pax Machina: a new publication about the institutions we need for powerful AI. It is edited by @MaxKronerDale, @sebkrier, @NoemiDreksler, @LiamPatell, @chelcott9, @synchroaphasia, @ryan_t_lowe, @edelwax, and @klingefjord. The editorial board consists of Peter Railton, @sethlazar, @saffronhuang, @AmmannNora, @xuanalogue, @IasonGabriel, @hamandcheese, and @deanwball. Our goal is to seed rigorous debate about what a world of humans and powerful AI could and should look like. We will publish proposals for new institutions, counterproposals, well-justified design principles, and analyses that change how a class of institutions should be designed.