Yes, loved your post.

I remember finding something about the only exception being cardinal voting (ranking each option on a scale) but this gets (over proportionately) negatively influenced by sentiment, uninformed decisions or indifference and thus is only an improvement in theory, as it's impossible to execute with a large, diverse set of "voters".

Therefore imho the trick is to pre-sort limitations as little as possible and instead develop robust systems (in the widest sense of the word) that are configurable. We just had a little battle over this re: Bitcoin Core too!

With AI, which doesn't need any consensus at all, society would do better to harden itself against threats it poses, not legally, but "physically". Otherwise, you will still suffer the consequences from "criminals" but have legal recourse after the fact only.