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Which is why I'd like fully automated luxury gay space communism. We can't be trusted to govern ourselves, take me to The Culture now please.
I, Robot did it first.
Man straight up said "robots would make the best leaders because they can be made to be honest, rational, and selfless," and people just remember the stories about the malfunctions.
The biggest problem would be making sure that the robots are acting in our best interests in a sustainable way and that no bad actors or loopholes make their way in. Though that's the topic of decades of speculation so I'm hardly bringing anything new up, yeah. And as you've said, I robot covered a lot of these things way back in the earlier sci-fi days.