AI Assisted Governance
It seems highly likely to us that future governance models will lean on AI to remove the inefficiencies associated with the human aspect within some of their modules. While in science fiction, AI-assisted governance models typically take the form of an AI dictator, in reality we expect AI to instead replace lower levels of leadership or act as an independent voting body (perhaps a triumvirate system in which one of the three bodies is an AI designed to optimize for something specific, whether that be the most efficient decision or the one an average stakeholder/citizen would make).
Probably the closest we have ever gotten to an AI-assisted government structure was Project Cybersyn, a Chilean project executed during the presidency of Salvador Allende, from 1971–1973. Project Cybersyn was a distributed decision support system to aid in management of the national economy that even included a 1970s-style “operations room” resembling the Star Trek bridge, which acted as an AI-assisted command center for the nation’s economy. The project was short-lived and largely ahead of its time, with its only real win being some reduction of economic damage from a 1972 truck driver strike in Santiago.