Democracy should be replaced with artificial intelligence

You're changing your original set of arguments once the weaknesses are pointed out... Apart from the power outages, something even worse can and will happen as it has happened in the past [1]. Solar flares, it happens often it will happen again. There are also plenty of near misses [2]. Should a massive solar storm hits the planet all electronics will be gone. Of course, human beings are not affected like, say, advanced AI electronics. Mankind lived through an era without electronics. Electronics can't survive the kind of solar flares mankind has. I didn't say humans wouldn't go about their lives. I said that all the roles and responsibilities of all the people that the people vote into power. That includes mayors, governors, senators, congressmen, president, sheriffs and any and all other people that either gets elected or appointed by those that get voted into power... There is also no reason to believe that this machine will not make bad compromises and short sighted decisions. Make a horrendous decision for the sake of peace thinking that its better to make a terrible decision in the name of peace... Suppose the machine takes a policy of appeasement.. "For the good of people". My argument is that a machine ruling a nation can't handle it based on the fact that the requirements are to vast for a machine. To many roles and responsibilities for a single AI to handle one of the largest nations in the world. Democracy has survived the test of time. It has seen the United States rise from meager power to superpower in less then 200 years. We do away democracy and the machine fails or gets destroyed there will be chaos. Democracy is abolished and all the people that run the federal and state governments are not there to keep things under control when the machine malfunctions, breaks, hacked, or destroyed. However, If the president dies, the vice president takes his place, if the vice president dies, the Speaker of the House of Representatives takes his place, if he dies, President pro tempore of the US Senate takes his place ect... "As governments currently direct money for futile wars and useless improvements, a super-intelligent machine can turn the tide for the good of people." ?... Useless improvements? Improvements is a good thing, it literally betters mankind, the reason for which the world still isn't in the stone age. Why the United States is a superpower. Why the human species are not nomadic tribes... This machine can seriously make bad decisions potentially hurt technological growth if it deems improvements a bad thing. You are actually sounding like this machine is to make decisions not just for the United States but for the entire planet. In which case the the feasibility becomes like 194 times more difficult... A great deal of wars occur to further the nation states that their governments fight. Fighting terrorism is by no means futile war. Those nation states would still act in the best interest and would refuse to listen to a computer. Like North Korea, China, Russia, Iran, Middle East and a group of African nations... It is unrealistic. All in all, democracy isn't perfect as I said previously but comparing to all other forms government , including a machine ruling mankind.. Democracy is still the best option. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org... [2] http://science.nasa.gov...