Making people accept their new robot overlord

So, it's happened. We have a robot overlord who follows the 3 Laws of Robotics + the Zeroth Law of Robotics. How we got such a thing or the process by which it makes its decisions is outside this question's scope. All we know is that it exists and is capable of generating perfect economic policy that benefit everyone, everywhere on the planet (according to the Zeroth Law). The RO can and must account for human psychology and sociology. For example, it outputs rules indicating that sub-prime loans should be regulated or that overall tax burdens should be shifted from income tax on middle to lower class people to increased capital gains taxes. It makes no recommendations about how to get these rules implemented politically.

The new Robot Overlord hasn't been announced yet and has been developed under intense secrecy by a consortium of technology mega-companies. Clearly, this kind of economic power could be employed in the background, kept invisible from the general populace. However, the public approach was chosen and the RO will be announced tomorrow.

An announcement of this kind of product will, of course, be met with skepticism by many different groups. How do you go about convincing (or later forcing) various resistant groups to accept their new Robot Overlord? Murder of any kind is forbidden by the 1st Law of Robotics (if the RO can't kill, neither can you). Given the near infinite variety of people on the planet, answering how to get everyone to accept is far too broad, so let's restrict the question to just convincing the political establishment to give up economic control to the Robot Overlord.

Bonus points if you want to talk about how any particular group would react to the announcement of a perfect economic policy maker.

Extra bonus points if you want to discuss the implications of giving the Robot Overlord the power to own property or stock.

posted over 9 years ago

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