ASI as the New God: Technocratic Theocracy
This addresses a speculative societal risk for humanity regarding ASI governance, but it is incremental as it builds on existing discussions of AI ethics and bias without introducing new empirical findings.
This paper tackles the problem of people potentially attributing godlike infallibility to Artificial Superintelligence (ASI), leading to unquestioning acceptance and a technocratic theocracy that undermines human agency and critical thinking, with no concrete numerical results provided.
As Artificial General Intelligence edges closer to reality, Artificial Superintelligence does too. This paper argues that ASI's unparalleled capabilities might lead people to attribute godlike infallibility to it, resulting in a cognitive bias toward unquestioning acceptance of its decisions. By drawing parallels between ASI and divine attributes such as omnipotence, omniscience, and omnipresence, this analysis highlights the risks of conflating technological advancement with moral and ethical superiority. Such dynamics could engender a technocratic theocracy, where decision-making is abdicated to ASI, undermining human agency and critical thinking.