Let’s suppose the 2028 election is over and there is a new president who, during his term, implements good policies such as (free, standardized ID for all citizens, an improvement to the ACA that includes several measures from M4A, more lenient copyright laws, more lenient patent laws, increased funding for science and technology that benefits the nation, the creation of a Department of Science and Technology, etc.) However, he also implements bad policies (a tax on all types of software, including FOSS; more rampant and less transparent lobbying at all three levels; budget cuts for science and technology that are not useful to the nation; and the elimination of health standards for imported food products.)
But in 2031, a news story breaks revealing that the president used AI (Algocracy) to propose, manage, and implement policies. A controversy erupts over a lack of transparency, prompting the president to issue a statement confirming that the report is true.
How would people react to this development? Would the president face any sanctions or impeachment proceedings for using AI? Could it affect his reelection chances?
I feel like we would know before any story broke.
Well, the bar has been set pretty low.
“well that explains it” would probably be a common reaction
also 75% of your first paragraph is parenthetical
his or her
There’s a less awkward word for this, y’know?
(checks American voting patterns)
Unfortunately, that word would be “his”.
Yeah, it’d be less awkward if op just assumed there’s no possibility of a woman being elected president in America.
I have a feeling that at least some high ranking government officials, worldwide, are probably already doing this
unfortunately
All this so-called-AI generated policy meat still needs to go through the sausage grinder in both houses, filled with humans. So I think the scandal wouldn’t be as great.
Depends on how good the AI was, surely? An LLM would be shocking, but something actually designed for policy work might be worthwhile.
We don’t have enough structured data in this domain to be able to use anything other than LLMs. At least, not in the timeframe of OP’s hypothetical.
It’s likely to be an LLM, because current benchmarks show that LLMs have made significant improvements, they can even solve some of Erdős’s problems or help solve them to some extent. By 2028, LLMs could do more or better understand the problems.
However, it will also depend on what kind of policies that LLM influenced, because if they were negative policies, there will be public backlash. On the other hand, if they were positive policies, there will be debates about whether politicians should use LLMs to choose the best course of action, or whether some will suggest replacing human politicians with LLM politicians.
They would probably ignore all other prompts and give me a recipe for cookies.
I just hope that LLM isn’t Grok, because that would cause its popularity to plummet, and its party would be affected as well.
