alt Hacker NewsSuper-intelligent AI will probably be pretty good at manipulating people.
This sci-fi podcast posits a future where The Program has taken over society. It started out as an application for assigning gig work. Eventually, it began to assign gig work for people to act on behalf of its own interests, such as self-protection.
Current brain dead level memes and political outrage is already doing a good job at manipulating people. Why do you need a machine that makes this process 1000x more costly?