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The Importance of AI in the Modern USA
If AIs could vote, it would be too easy to spin up 100 million of them. Daniel thinks there's only about a 5% chance of something like this working for reasons highlighted below. In this scenario, humans might end up like Native Americans in the modern USA. They've clearly lost to conflict, they're poor, and they have limited access to the levers of power. But they continue to exist, protected by the same laws that protect everyone else. Maybe there are enough AIs with enough different values that they find it useful to keep something like our existing framework of capitalism and democracy.
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