This reminds me of the podcast called "The Program".<p>Without giving too much away, it's a very entertaining, dark-humored work of fiction. Think Black Mirror but kind of funny.<p>It focuses on the topic of humanity overseen by a mysterious AI entity.
A five year old could distribute resources in a more fair way than we do now, so not a high bar.<p>We could easily make rules for fair distribution. We just won’t follow them.
What do we need AI for?<p>Why not allow the 7 billion real intelligences and their families distribute their own money.<p>You can't mass produce AI with unskilled labour for free.
The reason this will never happen is that AI managing resources will still be orders of magnitude more efficient as a market phenomenon over a single monolithic machine.
Imagine an AI with the power of computation and prediction such that it could centrally plan an economy better than capitalism, communism, or anything else in between or more extreme, by whatever measure you pick. That same predictive power would let it compute price movements in an open market better than humans too. By doing so it could accumulate the financial, and then the political power required to in fact control the economy. So if an AI with such power comes to exist, whether we choose to let it distribute society's resources may not matter.