“A Case for Superhuman Governance, using AI” by Ozzie Gooen

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A superhuman combination of human and AI I believe that: AI-enhanced organization governance could be a potentially huge win in the next few decades. AI-enhanced governance could allow organizations to reach superhuman standards, like having an expected "99.99" reliability rate of not being corrupt or not telling lies. While there are clear risks to AI-enhancement at the top levels of organizations, it's likely that most of these can be managed, assuming that the implementers are reasonable.  AI-enhanced governance could synchronize well with AI company regulation. These companies would be well-placed to develop innovations and could hypothetically be incentivized to do much of the work. AI-enhanced governance might be necessary to ensure that these organizations are aligned with public interests. More thorough investigation here could be promising for the effective altruism community. Within effective altruism now, there's a lot of work on governance and AI, but not much on using [...] ---Outline:(02:10) What is “AI-Assisted” Governance?(03:08) Arguments for Governance Improvements, Generally(04:42) Arguments for AI in Governance Improvements(10:44) Strategy: Bootstrapping Effective AI Governance(13:01) Objection 1: Would AI-Assisted Governance Increase AI Risk?(15:41) Objection 2: Will AI Governance Dangerously Increase Complexity?(17:41) Objection 3: Could AI Governance Tools Backfire by Causing Overconfidence?(18:59) What Should Effective Altruists Do?--- First published: June 7th, 2024 Source: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/nyiXej8EtoFwigrsw/a-case-for-superhuman-governance-using-ai --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.