Pax Machina — proposals and debate, for institutions in a world with powerful AI

PROPOSALS AND DEBATE

FOR INSTITUTIONS IN A WORLD WITH POWERFUL AI

NO. 1 editorial

Pax Machina: New Institutions for Powerful AI

The Editors

Powerful AI will open a new period of institutional invention. Pax Machina is a publication for working out, in public, what those institutions should become.

7 minute read

NO. 2 proposal

AGI’s Bureaucratic Future

Nick Caputo

AGI won’t do away with bureaucracy. Markets and democracies still run on shared rules. Used well, AI could make the institutions behind those rules more capable and easier to hold accountable.

14 minute read

NO. 3 analysis

Value Drift in Institutions

Joe Edelman

Institutions can end up serving proxies that nobody actually values, even when everyone can see what has gone wrong. Understanding how this happens reveals why some forms of value drift become self-reinforcing, and why powerful AI could make them harder to reverse.

11 minute read