Telocracy proposal: AI holding institutions accountable to their purposes
edelwax · x · 2026-11-04
Pax Machina's proposal No.7 publishes Joe Edelman's 'Telocracy' — a vision where AI holds institutions accountable to richly articulated purposes and helps people pursue their own, with concrete mechanisms like purpose-bound property and joint-outcome markets. Nora Ammann (OpenAI Foundation) praises it as the most ambitious institutional proposal in years, flagging three challenges: robustness to value-gaming, who owns the models and compute, and the transition path.
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