Most leaders in business and politics and other fields requiring an executive have a firm personal view of their field of activity and the world in general. In addition they frequently have assistants and allies who understand these views and coordinate to turn them into active policies. But also, many times, the personality of the leader may have many negative characteristics which hinder the execution of these valid policies.
With modern virtual techniques it should be possible to create a strong and effective pseudo leader whose policies are formulated and maintained by a coherent group without an actual leader. A public face for this leader could be manufactured by the policy group for media appearances wherein a favorable appearance would have great public appeal. As computer technology improves, this virtual person could become more integrated with the policies independent of the support group and could acquire a personality of its own. In this way, the policies of any executive group would become more important for consideration than any particular person.
There are several advantages to this type of construction. The virtual leader would never grow old or die or be subject to assassination or injury and as the policy group added new members with expertise in new and pertinent areas, the virtual leader would quickly accommodate these new abilities. As the public’s taste changed to prefer a different type of leader, the virtual leader could easily morph to preserve its favorable personality image.
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Yeah . . . Ayres and Nalebuff? Robots. :p
"virtual .... pseudo leader whose policies are formulated and maintained by a coherent group without an actual leader."
"A public face for this leader could be manufactured .... for media appearances"= Big brother!
Undoubtedly Big Brother could be one of the personae created for gaining government power. But any prominent political figure is fabicated out of the elements which might prove politically successful. They are all fictions of one sort or another. The only additional quality that a virtual leader would have would be physical invulnerability.
It might be further noted that this concept is not entirely novel. Modern technology would donate a concrete image that would imitate life in its relationship to the public but every religion has created a leader that is, essentially, a character with eternal life and whose policies are determined by the hierarchies of bureaucrats in control and that changes to appeal to conform to the tastes of the current adherents. There are, of course, a percentage of the adherents who will protest that their leader is not a fabrication of the group in control but is real. I must remain amongst doubters who requires rather substantial sense confirmation of this.
Take me to your AI Robitic leader!!!!
As long as they stand for trrth, justice, and the American way.
Freedom first, which may be better served by an unwavering Stong AI as oposed to a puppet head of state controlled by the ruling elite that buy the government.
Visionaries like Steve Jobs, Walt Disney, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy, Ghandi, Anwar Sadat, and Martin Luther King, Jr., are/were individuals with passion and conviction. I hardly think a committee would be able to have the same impact on the world!