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02 - Technocracy with AI
1. What is more important for a people? To have the right to choose
their representatives while living in a poorly administered country,
with precarious healthcare, weak education, and insufficient public
security; or to live in a country where all services function
perfectly, with economic prosperity, but without directly electing
the highest ruler of the nation? Ask a citizen of Ethiopia, Nigeria,
or Somalia, democratic but very poor countries, whether they would
prefer to continue electing their rulers or to have a dignified and
prosperous life without the right to elect who governs the nation.
Voting is important, but it does not feed a family, heal the sick,
educate a child, or protect citizens from violence. The political
system adopted by a nation must be evaluated and judged by the
concrete results it delivers to the population. Periodic elections
are of no use if, after each electoral term, the people remain
hostage to corrupt governments, subjected to misery, lack of food
and healthcare, lack of infrastructure and basic sanitation, and the
absence of real prospects for a better future.
Deng Xiaoping used to say: "It does not matter whether a cat is
black or white; if it catches mice, it is a good cat." Applying the
same reasoning to our subject, we may also say that it does not
matter whether a government is democratic or technocratic - what
matters is delivering concrete results to the population. If the
State guarantees jobs, infrastructure, security, healthcare,
education, and housing functioning properly, then for the people the
form of government does not matter, because it is fulfilling its
role well.
2. Universal suffrage, the right of all adult citizens to vote and
be elected, is important, but it is neither essential nor sufficient.
In 2025, young Nepalese people took part in protests and violent
clashes in Kathmandu, the capital of Nepal. The student uprising was
directed against the political class, accused of corruption,
nepotism, administrative incompetence, and authoritarian measures.
After the fall of the monarchy in 2008 and the establishment of the
republic, many Nepalese expected stability, social justice, and a
fight against corruption.
Seventeen years later, the result of the change of government was
deep frustration, especially among young people. A society may have
regular elections and still suffer under bad rulers. If parties
become machines of power, if public offices are distributed
according to friendship, kinship, or party loyalty, if the justice
system is weak, and if the population loses confidence in
institutions, democracy becomes merely a beautiful label for the
international community to approve. For the population, the price to
pay is electing mediocre and disastrous governments, whose populist
leaders win elections by promising easy solutions.
3. The scene of Jesus' trial is a portrait of the danger of
manipulating the masses through voting. The crowd did not arrive at
the square moved by spontaneous hatred. The Gospels state that the
chief priests of the Temple in Jerusalem persuaded the people to ask
for the release of a criminal and to cry out for the crucifixion of
an innocent man. This exposes the illusion that voting, by itself,
guarantees the right choice. What seemed to be the free voice of the
people was, in fact, the voice of manipulative religious leaders
echoing through naive mouths. An uninformed, emotional population,
manipulated by opportunistic leaders, votes against its own
interests while believing it is making the right choice.
4. Our proposal for the creation of the city-state of Taured is to
carry out a modern experiment in governance by adopting a
technocratic government administered by Artificial Intelligence in
all areas of public administration. In this model, decisions would
no longer be guided by partisan political disputes, electoral
interests, or lobbyist interests, but would instead be guided solely
by technical knowledge, resulting in a drastic reduction in
corruption, privileges, and favoritism.
This model makes even more sense when considering the reality of
populations in poor countries, which need fewer political and
ideological speeches and more immediate results: quality healthcare
and education, jobs, security in the streets, efficient
transportation, and equal opportunities for economic growth for all.
Technocracy with AI would be a path to accelerate human development
and reduce inequalities, because it would prioritize state
efficiency and the rational allocation of tax money, without the
vice of populist promises and electoral bargains that benefit only
the country's political elite.
It is important to emphasize that the technocracy imagined for
Taured is not intended to be a model for every country in the world
or a universal recipe. The proposal is different: it is a
technocracy designed to be implemented in a country that does not
yet exist, built from scratch, with institutions, rules,
infrastructure, and administrative culture planned from the
beginning to operate with transparency, auditing, and efficiency.
This avoids the problem of trying to graft a new system onto old
structures already contaminated by political vices and networks of
privilege.
If many people fear technocracy - especially when speaking of AIs
making decisions - this concern may be seen as one more reason to
support the Taured Project: to create a real country, with real
governance, in order to test its limits, advantages, and risks
responsibly. Instead of merely discussing theories or running
simulations, Taured would serve as a concrete experiment, allowing
us to evaluate in practice whether a technocratic model of
government can provide more justice, efficiency, and well-being for
society. In short, it would allow us to know whether the model we
are proposing can, in fact, be positive for humanity.
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