It might be possible to achieve liberal values (bans on slavery and torture) in a future AI-dominated society even with centralized superintelligence control, by training the superintelligence on liberal values and having it enforce them transparently while remaining private about other information.
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Scott AlexanderEvidence Quote
“it is plausible to imagine a future society that works the same way... a surveillance state, in the sense that there is some AI that knows what's going on everywhere, but that AI then keeps it private”
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AI 2027: month-by-month model of intelligence explosion — Scott Alexander & Daniel Kokotajlo— Dwarkesh PatelCreated: 8/11/2026, 7:03:29 AM
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