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What ASR said, and also this is a totally different domain. There is no code for the global financial system and no coder is going to fix it. There is no code for AGI, but some coder somewhere IS going to write it. The idea that fighting against billions of people and a system supported by all the money in the world is the same kind of activity as trying to prove theorems of friendliness is simply dense.
How about simulations of various economic/financial/social systems? Those are being done, and require code, and require high-level analysis. I find it perfectly believable that some abstract theoretical computer science / computer simulation work could uncover new insights / new arguments.
(that being said, I agree with asr's comment)
They also fail pretty badly and are remarkable useless at the moment.
Sure there is, it's just that the code is called "laws" and coders are called "legislators".
Laws don't behave like code and legislators don't behave like coders.