The current primary global strategy for replacing people with "AI" programs; amounts to the substitution of a "Magic 8 Ball" for human judgment.
This statement is hardly an exaggeration!
The Magic 8 Ball is actually a yes-no dice* with a verbal output, which is indeed just an elaborated coin-flip.
To set-up the analogy with "AI"; here are three aspects of the Magic 8 Ball mechanism:
1. Functionally; M8B is an obscuration and complication of a simple device for generating positive and negative responses. A child does not realize that the (relative) complexity of operation, functions to confuse the user about what would otherwise be obvious. And the verbal nature of responses (e.g. "As I see it, yes", "Don't count on it") merely provide a more human-like output than would numbers or symbols.
2. The other point of the 8 Ball is that it is supposed to be "magic". In other words; the M8B user has had the idea planted that the ball is (something like) sentient, conscious, has innate wisdom, and even predictive power.
3. Finally; the complexity of the structure enables much more money to be charged for the device; than if it was a die, or a coin.
The analogy between the Magic 8 Ball and the global totalitarian "AI" project is very close:
1. The colossal computational complexity of "AI" obscures that it does not understand anything - any more than does an M8B. And "AI" in its post-November 30th-2022 iteration, has been specifically-engineered to generate pseudo-relevant, human-like verbal outputs.
2. By means of a vast propaganda PSYOP - "AI" has been attributed with "magical" powers of intelligence, wisdom, creativity etc; so that people are inclined to treat its output as having (or very soon about to have) literally superhuman capabilities.
3. Nobody would pay much for dice; but the global establishment have spent many trillions of dollars (of "our" money) in "AI" technologies and its infrastructure (which, functionally, merely amounts to an eight ball on steroids with plastic surgery); of which most has gone into the pockets of pseudo-"investors"; with significant sums spread among their managers, propagandists and minions.
The question arises as to what will happen if or when significant decision making is taken from humans and given to the output of a Giga-Magic Eight Ball?
The answer depends on whether the real decision makers (i.e. the ones who chose to develop the obfuscation in the first place, and who oversee its implementation) take any notice of the "AI" decisions, or just make their own decisions as usual, but pretend that the "AI" was responsible...
This seems the likely intended scenario.
But maybe, instead, many people really will believe their own propaganda (it surely looks like it!); and the M8B will actually, in real life, be used to generate decisions that humans will then obey!
And maybe the leadership class of the world will allow or encourage this to happen - probably from motivations such as spite, sadism and destructive zeal - and will them will "sit back" in their secure and provisioned shelters, cackling at having so grossly fooled so many people; to "enjoy the show" of what eventuates.
In which case civilization will crumble and collapse... and more rapidly than would otherwise be the case.
*Magic 8 Ball is a 20-sided dice suspended in fluid, which is shaken, and then provides ten "Yes" and five "No" themed verbal answers - the other five answers are essentially "roll again". All of which ultimately reduces to a die with only yes/ no responses (in this case; double the proportion of "yes" than "no" answers) which could further be reduced to coin-flips.
