An unusual candidate is running for Parliament in the U.K., where the General Election takes place on 4 July: AI Steve. It's an artificial intelligence bot with a real person behind it — businessman Steve Endacott from Sussex.
🧠 AI Steve is a product of Neural Voice, a startup creating AI avatars and personalized voice assistants for businesses. The project aims to make communication with politicians direct and transparent. The AI candidate is available to voters 24/7 and intends to remain in touch after the election. Voters can ask digital Steve questions about his political views and election program via the website. He answers both by voice and text.
💸 AI Steve is running as an independent candidate. His election campaign’s priority policies include addressing climate change and immigration issues and building affordable housing.
If elected, he will be represented in Parliament by his “prototype,” Steve Endacott, who will lobby only for the policies with over 50% voter support on the AI platform.
It’s not AI taking over the world. It’s AI being used as a technical way of connecting to our constituents and reinventing democracy by saying, ‘You don’t just vote for somebody every four years; you actually control the vote on an ongoing basis.’
Steve Endacott, prototype AI candidate
This isn't the only time artificial intelligence is used in politics. An AI bot is also running in the current mayoral election in Cheyenne, Wyoming.
Are you ready to vote for the AI candidate?
❤️ — Yes, make robots great again!
🙈 — I pass this time
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