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AI candidate running for Parliament in the U.K. says AI can humanize politics (www.nbcnews.com)

submitted 5 months ago by gedaliyah@lemmy.world to c/nottheonion@lemmy.world

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[–] Neato@ttrpg.network 37 points 5 months ago

In 2022, Endacott unsuccessfully ran in a local election under the Conservative Party

Of course an AI tech grifter would be a Tory.

[–] towerful@programming.dev 14 points 5 months ago (1 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.

[–] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Would still make a better PM than the last few.

[–] towerful@programming.dev 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

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

[–] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

By the last few I meant everything since Cameron. I don't actually have very high hopes for Labour but things really can't get worse.

[–] bradorsomething@ttrpg.network 6 points 5 months ago

If you put a potato on your knee for 6 hours, politics can become much more civilized among people and camels.

[–] intensely_human@lemm.ee 4 points 5 months ago

Nope. Lie. Actual story reveals it is not an AI candidate, but rather a human candidate who promises to take his AI companion’s advice if he wins.

[–] zabadoh@ani.social 2 points 5 months ago

The AI has announced that its first bill will be the Kill All Humans Act.