this is key to understanding Cybersyn - it was never just about data or efficiency, it was about distributed governance, collective decision-making, bi-directional control/feedback/goals, etc. something never attempted before at such scale.
"Socialist AI" in this context doesn't mean capitalist AI carried out by socialists. Rather, it sees intelligence as social and distributed between humans and machines. And it wants to boost the human side (via free education, public instituitons, etc) and not only the tech one.