Without a strong central Government the psychopaths would take over because of their delight in killing, stealing, bullying etc. Indeed that is the situation under all Free Market states, as we can see all about us. To keep the Government from itself becoming dominated by psychopaths is difficult, but not impossible. Under capitalism it is inevitable. Did you mean to say, ‘…individual accumulations of wealth ought not to be POSSIBLE in the first place’, rather than ‘impossible’?

I think what I am expressing is what Irina Bokova @UNESCO established , not long ago , in Law, finally at the U.N. & that is that >>
“The Destruction of Culture is a Terrorist Act”
and the development of a sophisticated A.i. that incorporates , also Roma Culture as well, in a responsible proportional & accountable manner, would be for the benefit of ALL Scientific Humanity & societal recognition ..
Whilst respecting our one common Environment , Biosphere , Climate Change experience & MOST importantly our one common Ionosphere & Magnetosphere, which is quintessential to the conductivity of any and ALL ENERGY forms connected to Grounding & foundations of any thought !
Terra Firma ia an electrical terminology ..
Because we simple humans are neither ‘Neutral nor Infallible’ , if you get my drift?
Bare in mind I & my wife have tried for a lot more than just one decade to re-construct naturally, failed systems of education & Communication Channels, that have been wholly corrupted for personal self interest & pure material goals that are KILLING this planet , systemically ..
The core question you need to quantify for yourself first is what does FREEDOM mean ?

Yep, Goldmans sacked & bagged the Greeks with a carrot and Tsipras has proven himself more concerned with his own glory & ego, rather than that of the Greek People’s or State’s best interests ..
Which has it’s price for him privately, perhaps, interestingly .. ? ! His wife seems none too proud or happy, I must observe + comment that perhaps she is more of a Natalie Portman in character ? 🙂
(just a thought 😉 )
Tsipras still clueless to his original potential as man .. ? ? losing the plot ?

I live in Moscow and I speak and write Russian professionally

China does NOT ‘ execute homosexuals’. That, wherever it came from, is typical Imperial black propaganda. Go to any large Chinese city and you can soon find the gay underground, just as it was a few decades ago in the glorious West. Chinese culture, can you believe it, is different from the West’s, and gays are generally just allowed to get on with life, not hounded, or exalted. I hope China ends all discrimination that occurs, legally, in short order, but black Western propaganda and agitation is designed to hinder that process, just as it did in Cuba, but lost in the end.

China is the world’s leader in executions. They have the death sentence for most other things.

OK thanks, some of this is familiar. My curmudgeonly views probably aren’t all that far outside the mainstream and general public view.
In terms of AI, the UK is by far the centre of this technology judging mainly by the sheer volume of arcane scientific papers on the subject published, but will fail to capitalise on it in actual marketable products and institutional incompetence and based on my experience the public do not want and will not have it, whether its microphones and cameras in their home, or thinking machines, which don’t do what the user wants but what the machine thinks they want. I’d rather have manual control, with knobs, switches dials and gauges.
The public will push back preferring simple appliances with the minimum of features, that aren’t all that smart as they’ve no need to be, it only adds to the price, the complexity, multiplies the possible modes of failure, the impossibility of repair and the certainty of rapid obsolescence.
It might have some future in toys, games, education and training. So much of what passes for tech is dead-end formulaic structured play, e.g. wildly over-elaborate means of making LEDs blink and flash using a micro-processor, repeated ad nauseum to no real-world useful end except for gaudy decoration, when building a discrete-component equivalent, using a couple of transistors, a capacitor and a resistor is so much more satisfying and teaches concepts which are universally applicable.
Where lives could be at stake, it’s not going to happen. That includes self-driving cars which simply are not going to happen on public roads, the result would be daily carnage. There won’t be separate roads for them, and for longer distances trains can take the strain. R&D in this area is wasted unless it finds quite unexpected applications in fields far removed from personal transport, it’s a crazed gamble sucking in capital whilst the core business goes down the tubes.
In policing applications the issue of false positives in spotting ‘suspicious’ behaviour will never be overcome, databases will clog with erroneous data and consume already limited human resources having already far greater nous and discernment till it reduces front-line hands-on personnel and performance degrades, and the civil-rights complications that will result will render it untrusted, in the end disregarded and eventually discarded. With those responsible promoted somewhere so high that they’re never heard of or from ever again.
I’d heard of PROMIS, in iterations it’s probably two decades or more old involved in monitoring stock-market fluctuations and detecting movements, all sorts of conspiracies swirl around this software, I think much of it is confabulation and awe deriving from ignorance. Garbage in, garbage out still holds true. Number crunching large datasets is a task for hardware/software gladly surrendered to machines, but statistics always was and always will be dull as ditchwater is not more likely to lead to anything more revolutionary other than trying and failing to legitimise bogus subject matter such as social-sciences, masking flawed methodology, authenticating specious findings, and flawed conclusions by resort to the authority of the glorified calculators employed.
We always hear Israel and now machines are so far ahead of us all that we should simply get down on our knees and worship our supposed betters and superiors, give up as we’ll never amount to anything, someone or some thing will always put everyone, all us wretched lesser mortals in the shade, this all sounds like more of the same old, same old. Where are our personal jet-packs we’ve long been promised?

I think it’s FUD: sowing fear uncertainty and doubt. All we have to do all of us is look suspicious and do suspicious things as often as we can, to overload the still and always essential human component. And what has been built and put in place can be taken down again and thrown in the trash where it exceeds that which is strictly necessary for public-safety and detection of serious crime, not for pre-emptive prevention taken to the point of living in glass-houses or cages
Not for criminalising someone with a dicky tail-light or who smoked a joint with friends at a party the night before. Protection from violence and prevention of property theft should still be the core of the law, not though-crimes. Some laws at some times are absurd inflexible and arbitrary and not based on fact but on theoretical but improbable risk of harm. Honesty is still the best policy and is the default for the majority of the populace, and when that breaks down and that deviant behaviour is rewarded, further abuses result, and the law more often than nought, whether civil or criminal provides ineffectual or no recourse, leads to vigilantism.
Sociopaths tend to be those in relative positions of power over others and serial-offenders or serious offences should suffer serious penal consequences heavier still the greater their rank or position of authority and trust vested in them.
Society rots from the top, like fish from the head, and the highest standards are expected from those who lead us and represent our interests in the system of government, in this country a politician who speeds on an empty motorway or a youth who is jailed for after picking up a packet of gum or bottle of water from the street outside a looted shop pays a heavier cost than the Prime-Minister or secret-cabal who lie and incite and plot to drag us into wars and invasions that kill millions, blight millions more lives and reduce our national standing to that of the co-conspirator and culprits alongside with the thieves, thugs and murderers we ought to be condemning from the summit of morality.