[__MatrixMan__]

Money has been a proxy for violence for a long time. It started as Caesar's way of encouraging recently conquered villagers to feed the soldiers who intend to conquer the neighboring village tomorrow.

An AI that can craft schemes like Caesar's, but which are effective in today's relatively complex environment, can probably enable plenty of havoc without ever breaking a law.

[__MatrixMan__]

On the flip-side, something that can reason so broadly about an economy (i.e. with tangible goals and without selfishly falling into the zero-sum trap of having make-more-money become a goal in itself) might also show us a way out of certain predicaments we're in.

I think this might be fire worth playing with. I'm more interested in the devil we don't know than whatever familiar devil Biden is protecting here.