I've also had worries there; my naive hope is that there'll be a meaningful plurality within the-controllers-of-the-AI that they'll have to compete for feet. So if you want to grow the amount of matter and energy you govern, you'll need more people to opt in to your system to justify yourself (unless you want to give a good excuse for everyone else to band together and smite you). Then I hope the world is held stable by something like mutually assured resource exhaustion.
If you squint, I think UBI could function more like a lease on individual consent vs a gift. Hopefully, giving people inherent political value.
But for sure seems dicey; easy to imagine a few people in power colluding to disregard the vast majority of the population.
I've also had worries there; my naive hope is that there'll be a meaningful plurality within the-controllers-of-the-AI that they'll have to compete for feet. So if you want to grow the amount of matter and energy you govern, you'll need more people to opt in to your system to justify yourself (unless you want to give a good excuse for everyone else to band together and smite you). Then I hope the world is held stable by something like mutually assured resource exhaustion.
If you squint, I think UBI could function more like a lease on individual consent vs a gift. Hopefully, giving people inherent political value.
But for sure seems dicey; easy to imagine a few people in power colluding to disregard the vast majority of the population.