AGI’s Bureaucratic Future · Pax Machina
AGI won’t do away with bureaucracy. Markets and democracies still run on shared rules. Used well, AI could make the institutions behind those rules more capable and easier to hold accountable.
Most visions of a future AI government converge on two possibilities: democracies improved by machine-assisted deliberation, and markets transformed by personal agents bargaining on our behalf.1 But the discourse often leaves out the form of governance that has proved most durable: bureaucracy. Bureaucracy is everywhere, from continent-spanning governments to rapidly growing corporations. As German sociologist and jurist Max Weber argued, and as we’ve learned in the century since his death, technological progress demands more bureaucracy to handle the information problems of an increasingly…
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