Since publishing the original Gradual Disempowerment paper, my coauthors and I have been keeping an eye out for the obvious warning signs, as well as any rare glimmers of hope. Recently there's been enough that I figured it was worth collecting it all in one place in case anyone else was curious.

If it seems like there's appetite, we might make this a regular thing — I’ll put a comment at the bottom to react/reply to.

Governance By AI

Albania has appointed an AI called Diella as a government minister: a scaffolded system built by the Albanian government in collaboration with Microsoft, on top of OpenAI models. She recently addressed parliament for the first time, to some controversy.

Diella has been in use since January as a chatbot to help citizens with online government services. Apparently the hope is that Diella can slowly take more responsibility for public procurement [...]