Rethinking democracy for the age of AI
重新思考人工智能时代的民主
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There is a lot written about technology’s threats to democracy. Polarization. Artificial intelligence. The concentration of wealth and power. I have a more general story: The political and economic systems of governance that were created in the mid-18th century are poorly suited for the 21st century. They don’t align incentives well. And they are being hacked too effectively.
关于技术对民主的威胁的文章有很多：极化、人工智能、财富和权力的集中。我有一个更笼统的故事：18 世纪中叶创建的政治和经济治理体系不太适合 21 世纪。他们没有很好地协调激励措施，而且他们被黑客攻击的效率太高了。

At the same time, the cost of these hacked systems has never been greater, across all human history. We have become too powerful as a species. And our systems cannot keep up with fast-changing disruptive technologies. We need to create new systems of governance that align incentives and are resilient against hacking … at every scale. From the individual all the way up to the whole of society.
与此同时，在人类历史上，这些被黑客入侵的系统造成的损失从未如此之大。作为一个物种，我们已经变得太强大了。我们的系统无法跟上快速变化的颠覆性技术。我们需要创建新的治理体系，以协调激励措施并能够抵御各种规模的黑客攻击，从个人一直到整个社会。

For this, I need you to drop your 20th century either/or thinking. This is not about capitalism versus communism. It’s not about democracy versus autocracy. It’s not even about humans versus AI. It’s something new, something we don’t have a name for yet. And it’s “blue sky” thinking, not even remotely considering what’s feasible today.
为此，我需要你放弃 20 世纪非此即彼的思维。这与资本主义与共产主义无关。这与民主与独裁无关。这甚至与人类与人工智能无关。这是一种新事物，我们还没有命名。这是一种“蓝天”思维，根本没有考虑到今天的可行性。