Norbert Wiener, AI, and the Power of the State

Norbert wrote the book "Cybernetics". There was a review by Pere Dubarle which discusses the likely result of Norbert's work in the "far future", aka today.

"For the human processes which constitute the object of government may be assimilated to games in the sense in which von Neumann has studied them mathematically. Even though these games have an incomplete set of rules, there are other games with a very large number of players, where the data are extremely complex. The machines will define the State as the best-informed player at each particular level; and the State is the only supreme coordinator of all partial decisions. These are enormous privileges; if they are acquired scientifically, they will permit the State under all circumstances to beat every player of a human other than itself by offering this dilemma: either immediate ruin, or planned cooperation. This will be the consequences of the game itself without outside violence. The lovers of the best of worlds have something indeed to dream of!" (Wiener, Human Use Of Human Beings (1950), p207-208)