Imaginings
The following scenarios may seem futuristic or unrealistic. From a technical perspective, they are not. They are modest. The social dynamics of implementing these ideas are more challenging – much more. They depend on a broad, popular acceptance of an idea: Using AI to promote peacekeeping as a bulwark against the anticipated breakdown of our social institutions that may be coming down the road.
IMAGINE
Solomon as an Institution.
Like Google is an institution for search, or GPT for chat. “Let’s run it through Solomon” could be as natural for disagreeing parties as a Google search for a Starbucks nearby.
IMAGINE
Solomon finding consensus when emotions run hot.
A city government is caught between a NIMBY group and a group promoting halfway houses for recovering substance abusers. Rather than put it to a vote, stakeholders from all sides engage in a deep collaborative inquiry with Solomon.
Drawing on the limitless data, emotional intuition, and emerging hypercognition of near-future models, Solomon processes the massive amounts of complex input from thousands of voters and begins to float trial-balloon proposals that integrate the needs of both sides. After rounds of revisions synthesizing a compromise that satisfies 2/3 of voters, Solomon submits the proposal and the acceptance rating to the voters or their representatives.
Drawing on the limitless data, emotional intuition, and emerging hypercognition of near-future models, Solomon processes the massive amounts of complex input from thousands of voters and begins to float trial-balloon proposals that integrate the needs of both sides. After rounds of revisions synthesizing a compromise that satisfies 2/3 of voters, Solomon submits the proposal and the acceptance rating to the voters or their representatives.
IMAGINE
Solomon + Environmentalists + Public Utilities.
Stakeholders in the challenge of getting electricity from solar panels in Texas to households in Los Angeles join a panel of technology innovators and Solomon to work out the solutions to cheap, carbon free energy for America.
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Solomon + 3 households in a Neighborhood Dispute.
Jared, a community college student, is parking his truck on the lawn in front of his rented house. His neighbors Betty and Stan, along with Alice and Ben are complaining to each other about property values declining as a result. And Christmas is approaching, when family members will be visiting. “It’s none of your business where I park my truck” David responds when approached. With its superior emotional perception, knowledge of the applicable laws, and an understanding of financial principals, this would be a good time to call Solomon.
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Solomon + The Ways and Means Committee.
An emergency meeting of the House committee for dealing with the economic crisis unfolding as labor markets collapse and unemployment soars. The Left is arguing for socialistic measures. The Right is envisioning tax reforms. Libertarians are milling helplessly. Collectively, they turn to Solomon for complex, outside-the-box ideas they can all live with.
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Solomon + Inter‑Agency Space Debris Coordination Committee.
Elon Musk has declared a target of producing rockets at “at massive volume. Maybe as high as 10,000 ships per year.” Solomon is called in to help negotiate launch schedules and near-earth-orbit navigational complexities.
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Solomon + Frontier AI Models + Representatives of Human Kind.
Having a conversation about the fate of humanity in the age of SGI.
These imaginings, like everything associated with the long-horizon vision for Solomon, may feel implausible in the largely settled societies of 2026. They may feel just practical in 2035.
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