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> Of all the people in the world that I can think of to be entrusted with this kind of power, a bunch of greedy sociopathic SV CEO's are pretty much at the bottom of the list.

I know, right? But who can you trust with "this kind of power"? Governments? These days most of 'em ain't that much better'n mega-corporations and the ultra-rich that own them.

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Libraries, universities; institutions which have shown themselves to be devoted to the public good over centuries.

Any of these institutions that inherits a hard power (well soft and hard power) of AGI/ASI will have a very difficult time not becoming corrupted. It would quickly become the greatest holder of power in the world (assuming ASI can scale far beyond humans). It's not a very natural state for power to operate like this and wouldn't take too much for a more malaligned entity to take control, or said institution to become the malaligned entity itself.

Even if they all become corrupt eventually, which one takes the longest to get there? Better to squeeze a few decades of decency out of it than a few years, or not get anything at all by handing it over directly to the already corrupted.

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