Extended Essays 2021

Government by AI

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nurture which supposedly cultivate moral-driven beings that is content herself and contribute

to the overall harmony.

However, censorship of negative values again fails in history, for example, China’s attempt to

censor Western media or any information that smears on the socialist ideal was vastly criticized.

Western media’s comment regarding C ovid 19 such as “this is a C hina’s Chernobyl moment”

or “China’s cure to C ovid 19 should be democracy” are deemed as “fallacy” by China’s

authoritative media and are removed from China’s mainstream media. 21 The censorship aims

to protect the value of patriotism which indeed unites and harmonize the community. However,

Chinese people’s satiric response shows people’s dislike of censorship, and a preference of the

ugly truth over the embellished advertisement.

Plato would deem this rebellion as the ignorant ordinary people not recognizing the common

good and instead pursue illusions, which is why he promoted deception to induce good in the

ordinary crowd (like the noble lie). However, Nietzsche would argue that there underlines an

irrational pursuit of truth, perhaps the aesthetic and affinity to the hideous nature, to the ugly

but the primordial.

Scenario 3: Occupation Distribution

Role specialisation allows maximum efficient society and individual without toxic and

unnecessary competition, therefore, rational AI would choose to assign occupations according

to individual’s talent and personality calculated by algorithm.

21 Sina Corp.,2021.

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