An AI-generated politician? It exists and you can vote for it in the United Kingdom

UK voters will be able to vote for AI Steve, as well as bring their own issues and petitions to him. It will then incorporate all of these suggestions and requests into its platform.

The elections in the United Kingdom, which are about to fall, come with a surprise: a candidate created with artificial intelligence. AI Steve is the brainchild of Steven Endacott, a businessman from Brighton, who is standing as an independent for Parliament.

Your Creator sees AI Steve as an opportunity to better connect politicians with people. “This is not about replacing politicians, but about connecting them more effectively with their audience,” she says. Powered by Neural Voice, AI Steve can handle up to 10,000 conversations simultaneously.

You can interact directly with him, raising problems and political suggestions, and Endacott will be the one who attends meetings and parliamentary sessions, acting as directed by AI Steve.

“The problem is that many people react against it before they have read it and simply think of Skynet [la IA que creó Terminator en la franquicia cinematográfica de Arnold Schwarzenegger]. There is supposedly a similar Black Mirror episode, but I haven’t seen it,” says Endacott in an interview for The Independent.

AI Steve policies will be validated by volunteers who will rate them from 1 to 10

Endacott’s party, Smarter UK, failed to register in time for the election, so AI Steve is standing as an independent. What are your proposals? AI Steve wants to introduce a four-day week by 2030.

He also wants to increase prison capacity, eliminate London’s Ultra Low Emission Zone, increase national insurance and place transmitters on garbage trucks to check that they are following their routes to sort overflowing bins in the city.

With all this on the table, Then, volunteer validators from the local area vote on the policies and rate them from 1 to 10 in a weekly email. Only policies with a score higher than 50% are adopted. Endacott added: “We’re talking about reinventing democracy, reconnecting voters directly with their MPs so they can tell them what they want from the comfort of their own home.”

“Surely a democracy is what their voters want,” he says. “I know it sounds very obvious that a politician should be told what to do by his constituents. And if you don’t like him, bad luck. Get off work,” he adds.

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Tags: United Kingdom, Laws, Artificial intelligence, Software