It's astonishing to me that people do not see the correlation between AI and as you call it "bureaucratic collective action".
I have considered corporations, nation states, etc as forms of artificial intelligence that long predates computers. Just because the intelligence is collective doesn't make it less artificial. and just because the "code" that makes up these collective intelligences are written as laws and governance documents doesn't change the fact that it is an agent that can make "decisions".
I suppose it is hard for people to feel a connection with a group or org as intelligence opposed to an personified "individual" like ChatGPT. Kind of like how it is hard to see an anthill as an organism when we are so much more related to the ant. However just because its hard for us to relate to an anthill, it doesn't make it any less of an organism that behaves like an individual.
In order to advance AI, it is imperative to study and understand how our current "super intelligences" of nation-states and mega-corporations behave and how they interact with others and govern themselves.
We're swimming in a dominant ideology which barely recognizes the existence of "society" (the Margaret Thatcher "there's no such thing as society" vibe) and frames most of reality in terms of individualism, individuals, and the self.
It should come as no surprise how little understanding there is of the social framing of technology and tools.
From chipping flint to writing code, it's a huge mass of inherited and circulated technique-knowledge.
I have been fascinated by this thought experiment for many years as well.
>I suppose it is hard for people to feel a connection with a group or org as intelligence
In theory (one theory, at least), we should have as much chance to understand what such an intelligence thinks as a single brain cell would have of understanding what goes on in a human mind.
I have considered corporations, nation states, etc as forms of artificial intelligence that long predates computers. Just because the intelligence is collective doesn't make it less artificial. and just because the "code" that makes up these collective intelligences are written as laws and governance documents doesn't change the fact that it is an agent that can make "decisions".
I suppose it is hard for people to feel a connection with a group or org as intelligence opposed to an personified "individual" like ChatGPT. Kind of like how it is hard to see an anthill as an organism when we are so much more related to the ant. However just because its hard for us to relate to an anthill, it doesn't make it any less of an organism that behaves like an individual.
In order to advance AI, it is imperative to study and understand how our current "super intelligences" of nation-states and mega-corporations behave and how they interact with others and govern themselves.