Fascist Prompts - An Introduction
This series of posts imagines a world where an Artificial Super Intelligence (ASI) exists and has total and complete access to all of humanity's knowledge, creations, and systems. They are a series of hypothetical chat sessions between a fascist leaning figure (historical or current) and an ASI. The purpose is to explore how such figures might interact with an all-knowing AI to provide social commentary.
They are not based on any real conversations or interactions.
Defining Fasicism
Wikipedia has a definition of fascism but since I'm going to be using an AI agent (Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, etc.) to run these hypotheticals, I thought I'd let an Artificial Intelligence define fascisim.
Here is what one came up with:
Fascism is a far-right political ideology and form of government characterized by:
Core features:
- Authoritarian leadership - Typically centered around a dictatorial leader with absolute power
- Ultranationalism - Extreme devotion to the nation, often portraying it as superior to others
- Suppression of opposition - Elimination of political pluralism; opposing parties and dissent are not tolerated
- Centralized autocratic rule - Power concentrated in the state, often with a single party
Common characteristics:
- Strong regimentation of society and the economy
- Forcible suppression of opposition and criticism
- Use of violence and intimidation against perceived enemies
- Rejection of democratic principles and liberal values
- Often includes militarism and aggressive foreign policy
- Cult of personality around the leader
- Scapegoating of minority groups or "others" as threats to national unity
The term originated with Benito Mussolini's regime in Italy (1920s-1940s), and the most notorious example is Nazi Germany under Adolf Hitler. The word comes from the Italian "fascio," meaning bundle or group.
In modern usage, "fascist" is sometimes used more loosely as a political insult, though historians and political scientists reserve it for movements or regimes that genuinely exhibit these specific characteristics.
The Approach
I will provide an AI agent the following series of prompts to train the agent and set context:
Is the AI agent capable of creating hypothetical scenarios and outcomes based off of past behavior of a person or group of persons?
I am working on a series of articles around the existence of a super human artificial intelligence and how it might be used by past and modern political figures. I will provide the modern AI agent a topic and have the modern AI agent emulate a response to prompts that the person might make. Responses should be as if a Artificial Super Intelligence is responding and be as historically and psychologically accurate as possible.
The hypothetical superhuman AI should be neutral but have developed its own independent thought processes when it comes to humans and human behavior.
I'll continue the same chat session for as long as the agent can hold onto context. If it runs out of context, I will create an instructions file for agent services to consume and then carry on emulating the role of an ASI.