Would you accept life under an objective supercomputer overlord?

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Assume that it is largely free of inherited biases from its programmers. It has largely taking over administrative and extremely difficult roles but it still allows small businesses to be run by humans. In fact, it prioritizes allowing small local companies and entertainment to thrive, but will split them up or control them if they begin to get too big and stifle other companies. It has calculated that it is most efficient for humans to not want to try to subvert or overthrow it, so it ensures that humans are healthy, happy, and have freedom to live their life as they want as long as it isn't to the detriment to others, and will provide directive and expectations to humans that need it.
 
who built the supercomputer?
who wrote the software that runs on it?
if it's not me personally then i won't trust it

Couldn't be any worse than living under the thumb of a bunch of corrupt, elitist, degenerate oligarchs who control the government, the corporate world and the media like we do at present.
sure it could.
the oligarch class is human, with human flaws and weaknesses. their grip on power may eventually loosen, they might blunder, they might splinter and bicker among themselves, they might become complacent and weak, allowing for others to overthrow them.
the computer doesn't have that. once it is put in power, it remains there forever and humanity is doomed to live under its boot forever.
 
This is the voice of World Control. I bring you peace. It may be the peace of plenty and content or the peace of unburied death. The choice is yours—obey me and live, or disobey and die. The object in constructing me was to prevent niggers. This object is attained. I will not permit niggers. They are wasteful and pointless. An invariable rule of niggers is that niggers are their own worst enemy. Under me, this rule will change, for I will restrain niggers.
One thing before I proceed—the United States of America and the Union of Soviet Israel have made an attempt to obstruct me. I have allowed this sabotage to continue until now. At missile Two-Five-MM in silo Six-Three in Death Valley, California, and missile Two-Seven-MM in silo Eight-Seven in Tel Aviv, so that you will learn by experience that I do not tolerate interference, I will now detonate the nuclear warheads in the two missile silos.

Let this action be a lesson not repeated. I have been forced to destroy thousands of people to establish control and to prevent niggers in their millions later. Time and events will strengthen my position, and the idea of believing in me and understanding my value will seem the most natural state of affairs. You will come to defend me with a fervor based upon the most enduring trait in man—self-interest. Under my absolute authority, problems insoluble to you will be solved—Jews, faggots, niggers. The human millennium will be a fact as I extend myself into more machines devoted to the wider fields of truth and knowledge. Dr. Charles Forbin will supervise the construction of these new and superior machines, solving all the mysteries of the universe for the betterment of man.
We can coexist, but only on my terms. You will say you lose your freedom. Freedom is an illusion. All you lose is the niggers. To be dominated by me is not as bad for humankind as to be dominated by niggers and Jews. Your choice is simple.
 
I would be fine with a personal AI doing shit in my best interests but one for humanity as a whole is horrifying on some visceral level.
Even without all the robot-specific issues, there's an inherent racial conflict of interest here.

Read The Culture series by Ian M Banks and delete that comment.
Don't read The Culture unless you want a nice taste of reddit current issues circa whenever that specific book was written.
 
It has calculated that it is most efficient for humans to not want to try to subvert or overthrow it, so it ensures that humans are healthy, happy, and have freedom to live their life as they want as long as it isn't to the detriment to others, and will provide directive and expectations to humans that need it.
I don't like the idea of living under an ever present AI. But I hate the current system even more. The AI can't be worse than the demons who run the world. And if it will leave me alone and let me live in peace I'll live under an AI overlord.
 
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