DemocraticSI.com
Four things to build on superintelligence under public control, in six parts.
Who decides what SI does.
Public oversight of superintelligence is becoming a political question in every country: who may deploy it, who audits it, who can switch it off. The frontier is not only technical. For a startup or institute, the plainest two-word name for democratic control of SI sits on .com.
Citizens’ assemblies, online.
A company runs assemblies where randomly chosen residents set the rules for how their city uses SI.
Research on SI governance.
An institute writes model laws for public oversight and advises parliaments.
A vote on every deployment.
A platform lets members of a union or co-operative vote on how their organisation uses AI systems.
A movement for public control.
A campaign group gathers signatures for public oversight of the most powerful systems.
This name is waiting for its builder.
Everyone above is made up. The name is real, and it is for sale.
Those are only the uses we can picture. Someone who is a real innovator, a creative destroyer in Joseph Schumpeter’s sense, will see in this name something nobody has imagined yet, and build that instead.
It is priced on enquiry, with a reply inside one business day. Payment goes through independent escrow, and the name is pushed to your registrar, usually within 24 hours.
The end.