Question

2. When is it okay to replace a government?

Answer 1

Answer:

In theory, yes. In practice, no.

A government needs to decide on very fuzzily defined things like "what should we do in reaction to situation X?" Like, say, offering asylum to Edward Snowden, or determining actions in response to Russia's actions in Crimea. For a computer program replacing government, it would have to:

1) Determine that a situation is happening

2) Understand the available options & select one

3) Enact selected options

We're not nearly close enough with AI to achieve (1) and (2), although for (3) we can do ~some~ of it (the intelligence level necessary for some actions is available now).

So, we would need to have some large advancements in AI to get to a program-based government.

But beyond that, we would also need to build up TRUST for that AI. If, for example, we were able to build an AI program that passed a Turing test with flying colors in 5 years, nobody would be leaping on the bandwagon to put it in charge of our government. Specifically, we would need to ensure that people:

- trusted that the AI was smart and informed enough to make good decisions

- trusted that the AI was not self-interested

- trusted that the AI WAS interested in the good of its citizenry

- trusted that the AI was not biased in its interests (valuing citizens differently based on unjustified grounds)

If the above were accounted for, then it's possible that humans might wish to relinquish control of the government to a computer program, possibly enforced by more computer programs (like robots!).

But given that people in positions of power generally don't want to give up that power, and that the general populous is (at least currently) hugely untrusting of computers at large, I'm not sure this will ever be a reality in the forseeable future.

Answer 2

Explanation:

• Regime change is the forced ouster of one administration and the installation of another.
• The most crucial bureaucracy, government machinery, or state leadership may be entirely or partially replaced during a regime transition.
• According to political thought, it is a people's right or responsibility to "change or abolish" a government that acts against their shared interests or jeopardizes their safety without justification.
• The assertion of this right has been made in numerous historical contexts and has been used to support a number of revolutions, including the American, French, Russian, and Iranian revolutions.

Some laws used in replacing a Government:

• All power belongs to the people, and all free governments are built on their authority and established for their peace, safety, happiness, and the protection of property. This is guaranteed by the Kentucky constitution in the Kentucky Bill of Rights. They always have the inalienable and unassailable right to change, amend, or abolish their government in any way they see fit in order to further these purposes.
• All power is inherent in the people, and all free governments are built on their authority and constituted for their peace, safety, and happiness, according to Pennsylvania's constitution's Article 1, Section 2 of the Declaration of Rights. They always have the inalienable and unassailable right to change, amend, or even abolish their government in any way they see fit for the achievement of these purposes.
• There are other laws that are used in different countries all over the world.