Just finished the original Deus Ex. What a trip this was!
Besides the fact that it's a game with wonderful mechanics, it has very powerful philosophical overtone. This moment especially impressed me:
I mean the whole dialogue with Morpheus:
The human being created civilization not because of willingness but of a need to be assimilated into higher orders of structure and meaning.
God was a dream of good government.
The basic human need to be watched was once satisfied by God. Now, the same functionality can be replicated with data-mining algorithms.
Deus Ex was released in the early 2000s and the authors could not imagine how close to the truth they will be after 2009, after the invention of Bitcoin.
The game has three endings and one of them considers the possibility of AI government. A wise and impartial mechanism for solving our "simple" human ego problems.
I chose this ending because I believe this is the only possible way for humanity.
You will be who you will be. We are our choices. We can choose to lead humanity away from this...darkness
I think the representation of AI in the game is a little exaggerated. Now we know a little more about how it will look.
I'm convinced that we should make our AI experiments only in decentralized environments such as blockchain. And there is a good reason for that: in the hypothetical case of the appearance of hostile artificial intelligence, we leave the possibility of attack 51. Such a magical number, huh?
Yes, we could just turn 51% of all nodes to special emergency mode. We reserve the right to control the artificial government by direct voting. In addition, the power of AI should not remain in one's hands.
In case of success, we get a system looking for the optimal solution for the superposition of all people's problems. How is it possible with our weak brain? Can Trump and a team of wealthy businessmen look into every corner of the earth and understand what everyone needs? No, but the machine can.
And it's not a science fiction.
Look at the recent achievements of deep learning - modern neural networks are capable to find solutions to very complicated problems of classification.
The task of managing the multi-billion population of this planet is a task far beyond the power of man.
