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how long before “AI agents have voting rights too” becomes real

by ausbah 3mo ago

Joker_vD 3mo ago
"AI right are human rights!"
bulbar 3mo ago
No need for that. People will ask their favorite AI who to vote for anyway.
- ortusdux 3mo ago
  I fully expect to see Grok proactively offer to help you with your ballot
- firtoz 3mo ago
  I got mine to build me an interactive quiz for the UK elections, unsure if that's better or worse... It felt not so biased but who knows right?
  - thisisit 3mo ago
    The bias will come from your prompt. Asking AI - If voting for Reform UK is a good/bad idea? - shows AI where you at and what sycophantic it needs to give. AI is certainly not biased :)
  - bulbar 3mo ago
    My intuition is the more you think it's unbiased the worse is it.
- mullingitover 3mo ago
  This will actually dovetail perfectly with candidates using AI to write up their policy stances and work it into dynamic, emotionally appealing stump speeches.
gruez 3mo ago
Never? Even the whole "corporations are people too" meme where this sentiment presumably originated from is often misunderstood. It doesn't mean corporations have the same rights as people, it just means they can conduct transactions and can sue/be used. It doesn't mean they can vote.
- wat10000 3mo ago
  It does in one town in Delaware, at least: https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/delaware-court-upholds-voting-by-companies-small-towns-election-2026-05-26/ https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/delaware-court-upho...
  - weaksauce 3mo ago
    The thing that stuck with me is the awful reasoning by the judge: "Judge rules Fenwick Island's corporate voting does not dilute human votes" How could corporations voting not dilute the human votes by the very nature and reason of voting in the first place?
    - cucumber3732842 3mo ago
      >How could corporations voting not dilute the human votes by the very nature and reason of voting in the first place? Because you're being misled (i.e. lied to) about the actual nature of the situation. This is a snooty vacation town shithole. Non-resident landowners have been allowed to vote here since day 1. The purpose of incorporating as a town is/was essentially to have a town that's run by business. Think like City of Industry CA fucked the Hamptons, this is the kid. Back when they did this in 1950-whatever this worked fine. All the land was owned by McScumbag A, McScumbag B and McScumbag C who invariably lived in DC, NYC, etc, etc. Back then people owned vacation cottages, businesses, motels, etc, etc, in their own name. So, as everything moved to LLCs and whatnot over the years the scummy developers and investors slowly lost influence to the "filthy townies" or whatever and so in 2000-whatever they amended their constitution to allow their LLCs to vote and now, here we are litigating the implications in court. Yeah, it's stupid on like a dozen different levels but this isn't the "random normal-ish town goes apeshit and decide to let DuPont vote" it's being cast as. This town was already apeshit, it's just being fought about in court. And INB4 anyone puts words in my mouth, no I don't support the ruling.
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rectang 3mo ago
Making it hard for politically inconvenient humans to vote is more straightforward than granting AI agents the right to vote.

how long before “AI agents have voting rights too” becomes real

by ausbah 3mo ago

how long before “AI agents have voting rights too” becomes real

Joker_vD 3mo ago

"AI right are human rights!"

bulbar 3mo ago

No need for that. People will ask their favorite AI who to vote for anyway.

ortusdux 3mo ago
I fully expect to see Grok proactively offer to help you with your ballot
firtoz 3mo ago
I got mine to build me an interactive quiz for the UK elections, unsure if that's better or worse... It felt not so biased but who knows right?
- thisisit 3mo ago
  The bias will come from your prompt. Asking AI - If voting for Reform UK is a good/bad idea? - shows AI where you at and what sycophantic it needs to give. AI is certainly not biased :)
- bulbar 3mo ago
  My intuition is the more you think it's unbiased the worse is it.
mullingitover 3mo ago
This will actually dovetail perfectly with candidates using AI to write up their policy stances and work it into dynamic, emotionally appealing stump speeches.

gruez 3mo ago

Never? Even the whole "corporations are people too" meme where this sentiment presumably originated from is often misunderstood. It doesn't mean corporations have the same rights as people, it just means they can conduct transactions and can sue/be used. It doesn't mean they can vote.

wat10000 3mo ago
It does in one town in Delaware, at least: https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/delaware-court-upholds-voting-by-companies-small-towns-election-2026-05-26/ https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/delaware-court-upho...
- weaksauce 3mo ago
  The thing that stuck with me is the awful reasoning by the judge: "Judge rules Fenwick Island's corporate voting does not dilute human votes" How could corporations voting not dilute the human votes by the very nature and reason of voting in the first place?
  - cucumber3732842 3mo ago
    >How could corporations voting not dilute the human votes by the very nature and reason of voting in the first place? Because you're being misled (i.e. lied to) about the actual nature of the situation. This is a snooty vacation town shithole. Non-resident landowners have been allowed to vote here since day 1. The purpose of incorporating as a town is/was essentially to have a town that's run by business. Think like City of Industry CA fucked the Hamptons, this is the kid. Back when they did this in 1950-whatever this worked fine. All the land was owned by McScumbag A, McScumbag B and McScumbag C who invariably lived in DC, NYC, etc, etc. Back then people owned vacation cottages, businesses, motels, etc, etc, in their own name. So, as everything moved to LLCs and whatnot over the years the scummy developers and investors slowly lost influence to the "filthy townies" or whatever and so in 2000-whatever they amended their constitution to allow their LLCs to vote and now, here we are litigating the implications in court. Yeah, it's stupid on like a dozen different levels but this isn't the "random normal-ish town goes apeshit and decide to let DuPont vote" it's being cast as. This town was already apeshit, it's just being fought about in court. And INB4 anyone puts words in my mouth, no I don't support the ruling.

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rectang 3mo ago

Making it hard for politically inconvenient humans to vote is more straightforward than granting AI agents the right to vote.