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There's a general election here in the UK next month, as a crazy thought experiment, what if there was an AI party. No human MPs but AI agents for each distric
by monkeydust 2y ago
There's a general election here in the UK next month, as a crazy thought experiment, what if there was an AI party.
No human MPs but AI agents for each district that collectively would represent the party.
Give a decade perhaps?
- CTDOCodebases 2y agoWho would create the agent though? In essence the person at the top of that pyramid is the politician.
- monkeydust 2y agoA possible starting point is an existing political party fielding an AI candidate for an existing seat. Most parties are struggling to find candidates, many are standing down in this election cycle, of course most of that is from one party that has really long odds of remaining in power.
- batch12 2y agoSo a bunch of unknown people pulling strings for a puppet candidate that can't be held responsible for its output? As the leader, its generated text would result in actions that follow. So humans following the instructions of a non-sentient python script which is incapable of fear or regret or love.
- __alexs 2y agoAI are not people and can not run for office. Only a person can be an MP. An AI can only be an MP in the sense that a human can run on a platform of always doing what a particular AI tells them to do. Most MPs always follow the whip, so this should actually be quite familiar territory for the kinds of people that become MPs.