> The aim of the Founders, then, was not to avoid all concentration of power, but too much of it, by checking power against power, and ambition against ambition.

> Similarly, the answer to the structural challenge posed by advanced machine intelligence to free society is likely not the most radical decentralization of power imaginable. Instead, it is seeking to establish and preserve the right balance of power, such that no single actor, or small set of actors, can dominate the rest.

It is both hilarious and horrifying that they reference the US Government's system of checks and balances as something to be emulated to protect the people in a post-AI societal reorganization without ever mentioning what everybody knows, which is that this system has completely failed in modern times with both the legislative and judicial branches completely abdicating all of their power to an oligarchic executive.