inter-computer realities can influence realitites outside computers
For tens of thousands of years, humans dominated planet Earth because we were the only ones capable of creating and sustaining intersubjective entities like corporations, currencies, gods, and nations, and using such entities to organize large-scale cooperation. Now computers may acquire comparable abilities.
The problem we face is not how to deprive computers of all creative agency, but rather how to steer their creativity in the right direction.
The intersubjective entities invented by humans were the basis for all the achievements of human civilization, but they occasionally led to crusades, jihads, and witch hunts.
As computers replace humans in more and more bureaucracies, from tax collection and health care to security and justice, they too may create a mythology and impose it on us with unprecedented efficiency.
Whenever they claim to use all-encompassing databases and ultraprecise mathematics to discover sinners, terrorists, criminals, and antisocial or untrustworthy people, they might actually be imposing baseless religious and ideological prejudices with unprecedented efficiency.