Would AI actually abolish the monarchy?
This is a thought experiment about optimizer logic, not a policy proposal or a prediction. It models how a system trained purely on fairness, ROI and accountability metrics would classify inherited power — as a design flaw — without accounting for the cultural, tourism and symbolic value humans also weigh.
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Why AI Would Delete Royal Families, and What It Would Build InsteadA thought experiment: how a pure optimizer would score hereditary monarchy as a bug, and the meritocratic council it would ship instead.
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