Dialectical Process of Government

Humans have been running an experiment for around three millennium called government. Through this experiment, we have come up with a few systems, as described by Plato and other philosophers. These systems are monarchies, democracies, republics, anarchism, and others. Our experiment is still in progress, due to the fact that we have not yet created a government which truly meets the needs of its citizens.

This idea of a Utopia, in which everybody is happy and the government truly acts to fulfill the needs of all its citizens, has permeated philosophical novels for centuries. This illusive society, however common in literature, has never been able to exist in practice; at least not in large societies.

The reason for the lack of Utopian societies is undoubtedly due to the complexity and diversity of society, along with economic-political and human behavioral problems. From greed to selfishness, prejudice, fear, incompetency, and other unfortunate human traits, all have been at the root of government systems due to their human origin.

As societies grow larger, more complex, and more diverse, it is becoming increasingly harder for governments to adhere to the needs of all of their citizens. This is less a lack of resources as it is a fault in humans and our ability to work as a group towards meeting everybody's needs. This leaves us with two choices, either continue down the path of an increasingly widening gap between the rich and the poor, or redefine government and create a system in which everybody is taken care of. The problem may be that we are incapable of creating such a system.

As AI's and mind clones evolve, they will acquire the ability of independent analyzing and problem solving. As their computational power increases, so too does their analyzing ability. Thus, I believe we will eventually benefit by using them to create new government systems customized to the current times. In fact, in a century or so, we will have machine judges that may or may not work beside human judges, providing more accurate and unbiased decisions. We will also have machine politicians, working in ways similar to current politicians, but without the backstabbing and unproductive nature of current politicians. The machines will most likely work better together than humans and create more rational decisions than we do.

This may sound scary, but imagine a government in which decisions are based upon the advice given by an artificial intelligence. This AI will have all the information needed about the country to create rules and laws that provide the best living situations for the most people. Economies will be ran by AI's, along with foreign relations policies and other government aspects.

I, for one, believe that this will benefit humankind as a whole, as long as AIs stay unbiased and are not given full control of society. By this I mean that they will create laws and government systems, but humans should still maintain some sort of control to prevent the AI's from effectively taking over the world.