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  • The problem isn’t inherent to AI. The issues are little different from the industrial revolution or robber barons, where industry is power, and the most malicious are ever grasping to obtain it.

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    The solution isn’t to abandon AI, but for ordinary people to become masters of the technology. Every home server, allows a homestead to have understanding and agency over their tools. If enough individuals own their own AI, it would become possible to overcome the influence of corporations, such as community projects to provide AI utilities to their communities.

    For example, say a phone app is developed and spread by a town. It’s purpose is to record receipts with a cellphone camera, and then the town’s AI analyzes it. Using comparisons of purchasing prices, it can detect whether pricing is being changed on a individual basis, or other shenanigans. This can help stem price fixing and other corruptions.

    We, as a society, should use AI to help counter malicious actors and to provide helpful services.










  • Personally, if the USA gets a complete overhaul, I think that there should be checks and balances through how each branch gets personnel. Furthermore, a fourth branch, the military, so that the executive isn’t in charge of that function.

    The staffing concept goes something like this:

    • Congress decides how many personnel the other branches can hire each year. Congress has to ask the judiciary, executive, and military branches to give them people to fill assorted roles as part of the congressional branch.

    • The judiciary hires and trains bureaucrats and military commanders. After they have completed training, they are passed onto the executive, congressional, and military branches. Every so often, commanders and burecrats will have to be retrained by the judiciary.

    • The executive will train ordinary soldiers, and release them into the service of the military. The executive also assigns logistical staff for the military, such as quartermasters, kitchen staff, and so on.

    • Once a bureaucrat or military member is a certain age, they can either retire or continue their career working for the judiciary. As members of the judicial branch, these workers can serve as bailiffs, enforcement troops for court orders, be assigned to serve congress as support staff, and so on. This means the judicial has a relatively fewer bodies than other branches, but they are also the most experienced.

    • The military can give the other branches defensive staff, such as cybersecurity experts, embassy guards, and so on.

    Probably not perfect by any stretch, but the idea is to make it harder for any one branch to become “the” branch when it comes to human resources.