<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" ><generator uri="https://jekyllrb.com/" version="3.10.0">Jekyll</generator><link href="https://inevolin.github.io/blog/feed.xml" rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" /><link href="https://inevolin.github.io/blog/" rel="alternate" type="text/html" /><updated>2026-08-26T10:43:51+02:00</updated><id>https://inevolin.github.io/blog/feed.xml</id><title type="html">Ilja Nevolin</title><subtitle>Writing on AI, technology, and sustainability, with occasional takes on economics and politics.</subtitle><author><name>Ilja Nevolin</name></author><entry><title type="html">Should we let AI govern us?</title><link href="https://inevolin.github.io/blog/2026/08/25/should-we-let-ai-govern-us/" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="Should we let AI govern us?" /><published>2026-08-25T00:00:00+02:00</published><updated>2026-08-25T00:00:00+02:00</updated><id>https://inevolin.github.io/blog/2026/08/25/should-we-let-ai-govern-us</id><content type="html" xml:base="https://inevolin.github.io/blog/2026/08/25/should-we-let-ai-govern-us/"><![CDATA[<p>What if AI were in charge of public policy and politics? Perhaps it would shift food subsidies, electrify transport, build cheap power, sign the plastics treaty, restore the aid, and feed everyone for a rounding error on the weapons budget. The experiment would not show how smart machines are. It would show that our paralysis is not intellectual. We lack a decision-maker whose incentives point at the future instead of the next election.</p>]]></content><author><name>Ilja Nevolin</name></author><category term="AI" /><category term="governance" /><category term="political economy" /><summary type="html"><![CDATA[What if AI were in charge of public policy and politics? Perhaps it would shift food subsidies, electrify transport, build cheap power, sign the plastics treaty, restore the aid, and feed everyone for a rounding error on the weapons budget. The experiment would not show how smart machines are. It would show that our paralysis is not intellectual. We lack a decision-maker whose incentives point at the future instead of the next election.]]></summary></entry></feed>