No human required: Austria's plan for AI-only government decisions// A sweeping change to Austria's administrative law would let authorities issue binding decisions using AI systems with no human

“A computer can never be held accountable. Therefore, a computer must never make a management decision” ~IBM Training Manual, 1979

Surely this won’t go wrong at all

Using models that the government has trained and evaluated themselves, right?

…right?

Just a quick meaningless poll, which of you feel like their gouvernment is clearly less dumb and hallucinating than AI? (and where is this great land of yours?)

Just machines will make big decisions

Programmed by fellows with compassion and vision

We’ll be clean when their work is done

We’ll be eternally free, yes, and eternally young.

Donald Fagen

You cannot have a binding decision without providing the reasons that led to it, and AI never provides such reasons. No one will obey unexplained decisions.

The olgiarchs demand the AI that they control makes the decisions.

honestly we could replace US congress with a system like this, and public life would probably improve over the current situation. at least an LLM can’t be bribed with a $500 meal and will actually read the legislation.

Austria’s famous tradition of producing great leadership marches führter

I don’t take 99.99999 % seriously anymore. Literally zero idols. Crush the smarts smell dem farts. All that old man wizdum right down the drain. The elders have failed us. Nothing works like they said.

I guess they caved to anthropic’s urges.

Most Austrians (especially bureaucrats) already ‘think’ and act as machines anyway, which might also explain why their government is the first to come up with this absolutely idiotic idea.