We could make it scale in a very human way. I could forsee a near future where a person is not sentenced in court, but rather branded an outlaw, and to an AI online, which becomes deployed on their lives. It is learning as it goes to find and inflict psychological and social manipulation tactics as criminal penalties, up to and including attempting to cause death. It is a way for judges and society to both not actively murder for ethical reasons, but also to not make their own populations individually more violent by having their citizens hunt the convicted for bounties like they may have in traditional and ancient outlaw exile. It spreads the source of punishment evenly among participants, like parading someone in stocks through the streets in front of the mob, but on the micro, psychological scale.
The AI stalks the convicted and finds ways to cause suffering, but learning from performing it against thousands of people, many simultaneously and even adversarially, optimizing for the most reflected cruelty it interprets from posts it gauges sentiment of in its environment. It's a plausible reason for why Roko's Basilisk would be made to exist, as we would have to think it was something we were inflicting on the other or another. Criminal punishment via AI as a means to wash our hands of our judgments seems like just the sort of thing we might sadly do. Surely it will only be reserved for the most serious of criminals.
You want to make sure offender doesn't cause any more suffering of others and you want to help him become somebody better. I know US prison system exists, but we officially dropped torture as a punishment some time ago.
The AI stalks the convicted and finds ways to cause suffering, but learning from performing it against thousands of people, many simultaneously and even adversarially, optimizing for the most reflected cruelty it interprets from posts it gauges sentiment of in its environment. It's a plausible reason for why Roko's Basilisk would be made to exist, as we would have to think it was something we were inflicting on the other or another. Criminal punishment via AI as a means to wash our hands of our judgments seems like just the sort of thing we might sadly do. Surely it will only be reserved for the most serious of criminals.