Sorry for not trying to be inventive but merely maybe contrarian

I've come to think that one unequivocal upside of "affordable ASI" would be to bring about a world of discourse where discursers would hesitate to think of (not to mention carry) themselves as experts.

[Perhaps it reminds me of Le Guin's thoughts on tech X power, especially as represented in The Dispossessed]

it would seem not just rude, but even snide, to bias your interlocutor towards not carefully verifying the dependencies of your arguments

Widely dispersed and affordable AI would help because it (certainly, imho) makes the alternative, "trust but verify", so easy

And it would be strictly easier than using cloud chatGPT to sow misinformation because there are extra steps in that (--- nonsockpuppets would be inclined to verify the gist of what they are about to say as indeed misleading)

[As a bonus, this seems compatible with TFA, non-ideological anti-anti-intellectualism, and

https://schipper.ai/posts/technical-leaders-should-have-the-...

if we default to assuming that technical leaders should be different (not more, not less) than expert engineers ]