Kulturkampf

[Eric Cartman]

You know what would make communism work better? Some sort of central intelligence that could understand demand and assign resources to satisfy that need quickly and efficiently.

Some sort of artificial intelligence...I wonder how all the online communists feel about AI?

The AI would realize how inefficient and destructive a centrally planned system would be for human incentives within seconds and scrap the whole thing.

Ehhhh I dunno.
I can see an AI central planner doing a better job than "the invisible hand of the free market" in that it could potentially do a better job at assessing 'worth' and prioritising accordingly, because lets face it, a lot of CEOs are fucking morons, and a lot of 'market value' is based on purely short term purely financial performance.

A lot of the ways capitalism is broken is because a lot of things don't have their value / cost benefits accurately balanced. Factoring in things like social costs would radically alter pricing structures for all kinds of businesses, and an AI wouldn't have to worry about things like political expediency or NIMBYism to make data driven decisions that are widely beneficial.

Having said that, obvious GIGO, and there's all sorts of caveats to that.
Like, the obvious being data entry clerks mysteriously being valued as the most valuable members of society somehow.