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Their wordsDictatorial control is founded on terror, but algorithms cannot be terrorized.
Their wordsIn the long term, authoritarian regimes are likely to face an even bigger danger: instead of criticizing them, AIs might gain control of them. Throughout history, the biggest threat to autocrats usually came from their own subordinates.
Their wordsDictatorships are far more vulnerable than democracies to such algorithmic takeover. It would be difficult for even a super-Machiavellian AI to amass power in a decentralized democratic system like the United States.
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