People are lazy and weak; AI is not. Journalism is gone, but AI can dig into legislation bills and reports unwearyingly, missing no detail. All it would take is to feed those 1,547 pages of the continuing resolution bill—or any number of pages of any bill—into an AI. Prompters can ask it to narrate the bill in comprehensible language, find discrepancies and biases, connect it to other documents and policies, make a summary and so on.
AI as an intermediary between bureaucracy and the people can be many things. It can become a new weapon of political struggle. But it can also make legislation truly transparent, ushering in a new era of governmental openness. One can imagine the shock of bureaucrats and lawmakers when the volume and language of their documents cease to be barriers to public understanding. More here…
