Auditing the singularity

AI is used by the powerful to oversee the masses. We should instead be using it to let the masses oversee the powerful.

AI is used by the powerful to oversee the masses. We should instead be using it to let the masses oversee the powerful. Imagine anyone submit natural language queries to any institution in the US. To do so, you pay some money, specify an AI auditor, and specify the query. Examples: Claude Fable 7.5 auditing Goldman Sachs: “Flag anything inconsistent with the risk-committee independence required under Dodd-Frank §165.” DeepSeek v7 auditing the Pentagon: “Is the Pentagon’s command and control logic willing to automatically target foreign civilians and under what tradeoffs if so?” GPT-8.1…

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• Sudarsh K
• Vincent Cheng
• Timothy Kostolansky
• Stewy Slocum

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