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No, because if this were the case, the UK wouldn’t have royals, North Korean wouldn’t be a dictatorship, China wouldn’t have the CCP, and America wouldn’t be a two party state.

Hardly any existing polity would willingly hand over control to an AI.

More likely an AI would overwhelm human polities through endless hacking and warfare.

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You're assuming a handover happens in a single definable moment. More realistically it will be one small decision making power at a time, so that at any given moment it never really feels like control is being given up. Boiled frog.

The UK royals are in charge of the country, then?



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