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AGI could make governments subordinate to the companies that develop it

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S. Yash Kalash
Senior fellow at the Centre for International Governance Innovation; expert in strategy, public policy, digital technology and financial services.

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If firms own the AGI systems that automate most economic activity, they may provide stipends, dividends or services to users, effectively becoming private welfare institutions. Economic efficiency may improve, but democratic accountability would weak...
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Tristan Harris
Center for Humane Technology cofounder

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Do you have to listen to the people's political power if you don't get your tax revenue from the people anymore, you get it from AI companies? And if companies - you can't use your bargaining power. You can't, like, withdraw your labor like a labor u...
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Holly Elmore
Founder and Executive Director of PauseAI US; evolutionary biologist and AI moratorium advocate

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The governance of superintelligence has to represent the stakeholders of Earth— all people. AI companies cannot grade their own homework. They cannot be allowed to hold so much power that they eclipse democracy.
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Adam Segal
Ira A. Lipman chair in emerging technologies and national security and director of the Digital and Cyberspace Policy program at the Council on Foreign Relations

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If the frontier labs do achieve superintelligence, their capabilities will become extraordinary. They could launch cyberattacks, wield political influence, or fashion new and exotic weapons to seize power. U.S. policymakers need to ensure that there ...
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Hélène Landemore
Yale political science professor

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Currently I just see elected legislatures quite captured by the tech industry and incapable or unwilling to regulate.
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Joseph Stiglitz
Nobel laureate economist based at Columbia University

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It is an oligarchy with better technology. [...] If the tech oligarchs continue in their mindset overall of downscaling government, that will impair the ability of government to facilitate the AI transition.
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Tom Wheeler
Visiting Fellow at Brookings Institution; former Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) 2013-2017; author and tech policy expert

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The more immediate and tangible risk is the concentration of AI decisionmaking in a handful of individuals responsible primarily to themselves and their shareholders. [...] When a handful of companies make consequential choices about model behavior, ...
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David Lie
Director of the Schwartz Reisman Institute for Technology and Society at the University of Toronto; Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering; Canada Research Chair in Secure and Reliable Systems

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That is not a choice a for-profit corporation should be allowed to make in a democratic society. Nor should such a company be able to restrict the ability of society to make choices about its own security.
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Karen Hao
Technology journalist and author

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[These companies are] consolidating a historic amount of economic and political power, terraforming our earth, reshaping our geopolitics.
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Will MacAskill
Philosopher; effective altruism cofounder; researcher at Forethought Centre for AI Strategy

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Another possibility, if there's a large enough intelligence explosion, is that the first project to build AGI organically becomes a de facto world government. This possibility is worth taking pretty seriously, given the stakes and the fact that an in...
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Bruce Schneier
Security technologist and author

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A democracy that defers its knowledge to private algorithms is one that risks becoming a spectator to its own governance. [...] If public knowledge is absorbed into proprietary systems that the public cannot inspect, audit or meaningfully challenge, ...
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Daron Acemoglu
Nobel laureate economist; MIT Institute Professor; author of Power and Progress

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As AI reorders economies and concentrates power in fewer and fewer hands, the question is no longer whether democracy needs saving, but whether we can save it in time.
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António Guterres
UN Secretary-General

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We are witnessing perhaps the greatest transfer of power of our times — not from Governments to people, but from Governments to private technology companies. [...] When technologies that shape behaviour, elections, markets, and even conflicts operate...
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Simon Chesterman
Vice provost at the National University of Singapore, professor of Law and author

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Sovereignty — understood as the authority to set rules, allocate resources, and shape collective futures — is migrating from public institutions to private actors. These 'silicon sovereigns' set rules, adjudicate disputes, police speech, shape labor ...
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Stuart J. Russell
AI Expert and Professor

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Whichever company develops AGI first would have a significant advantage that would then increase relative to the other companies. That company — or a small handful of companies — may control a majority of economic activity on the planet and governmen...
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