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AI candidate running for Parliament in the U.K. says AI can humanize politics (www.nbcnews.com)
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[–] 14 points 2 years ago (3 children)

I was kinda hoping the UK was past exploiting the ill-informed, idiots and reckless. Especially after the wild wild success of Brexit.

But no, apparently not.
Exploit the AI hype that a lot of people probably don't understand.
Somehow argue that a computer is more human than a human.
Put this absolute garbage of a solution on the ballet, and watch everyone go "well, politicians aren't working, let's try breaking the system" and vote for some untested hallucinating predictive text algorithm to lead a country, while employing twice as many staff to fix/feed/spin/manipulate/fake the results of the AI.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Would still make a better PM than the last few.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child)

    I had a huge rant about this, but ditched it.

    Steve is the actual politician, but will vote according to crowd sourced opinions on the topics.
    And that's where AI Steve comes in. AI Steve helps generate policy ideas, and they are voted on by the approved community members. Parliamentary topics are also voted on by approved community members.
    So AI Steve is the lube, but it's essentially direct democracy for the approved community members.

    So, very cool idea (the direct democracy).
    No idea if it would work on a wider/country scale.
    Of course it's a Tory doing it.
    Pretty sure this could be done just with an online voting/polling platform and 1 or 2 people doing data entry/gathering.

    However, the "better than the past few PMs" is a dangerous rhetoric. Cause all it needs is also a "both sides the same, labour is Tory lite, etc", and suddenly a bunch of voters will vote disruptively and we get Brexit 2.0 (whatever that might be).
    Voting disruptively is absolutely fine, but I'm fairly sure it's the easiest method for foreign influences to meddle in elections

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