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Why we may elect our new AI overlords

2 Post author: Deku-shrub 04 September 2016 01:07AM

In which I examine some of the latest development in automated fact checking, prediction markets for policies and propose we get rich voting for robot politicians.

http://pirate.london/2016/09/why-we-may-elect-our-new-ai-overlords/

Comments (3)

Comment author: MrMind 05 September 2016 07:36:46AM 1 point [-]

As far as politics can be reduced to a problem of optimization, surely machines could do a better job than humans.

Comment author: Deku-shrub 07 September 2016 09:28:34PM 0 points [-]

Pretty much, but I advocate this only in an opt-in, accountable fashion. Or as we say in the IT industry - user acceptance. :)