The humans are making those decisions whether you use AI or not. There’s lots of bias in training any form of model, and many people doing the training dont likely prioritize. Yes there is actual training bias like leakage and sample distribution issues that everyone knows, but the implicit biases are far more insidious. Look at all the facial recognition software or the countless prison ml/ai applications that are ridiculously biased to minorities. AI is no better and arguably worse. Are you going to ask the AI how it got to its answer? Because it can’t tell you about its little weights.
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No. It's a fundamental misunderstanding of what current AI models even are. They're not smart and they don't think. They are just reflections of what has already been. Whatever was fed into their training. They aren't going to magically solve a problem in some way none of us would have because it's kind of an amalgam of all of us. (and a LOT of bots) You also can't separate governance from politics. There is no one best answer which everyone is happy with, and the various groups or individuals with those varied interests have varying degrees of influence over the process. If the AI came out and was like "socialism all the way baby!"... do you really think that the people in power who benefit from the current system would just be like "Well I guess the AI said it's right, time to give up our power."
That's not to say there's no place for AI. Machine Learning can be used as a great tool for statistical analysis to help answer specific questions we have in implementing priorities we've already decided on, but just like everything in statistics, it doesn't matter how good your math or data was if you didn't ask the right question in the first place.
People are already asking chatbots how to vote, so we'll get whatever govt the bot vendors want to install. The bots will reinforce their priors.
It depends on which model they're using. If it's a GPT-4o or Claude 3, I'd say abort the mission before you cause a major disaster. But if they're more powerful models than the Claude Fable/Mythos 5, GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra, or Pro, I'd be curious to see.