A new political party led by AI in Denmark's eyes to winning general elections in 2023

To raise public awareness of the impact artificial intelligence has on people's lives, a new political party led by AI is in the news. AI is making its presence felt even in politics now after its success in fields like healthcare, art, and writing. It is interesting to witness growth.

By the way, Leader Lars, its CEO, is an AI chatbot, and every one of its policies is derived from AI and eyes to win. This AI-driven political party in Europe hopes to get parliamentary representation and is working to raise awareness of the impact artificial intelligence has on people's daily lives. This chatbot in AI politics hopes to run the country. Although The Synthetic Party's leader Lars won't appear on any ballots, its human members are devoted to implementing its AI-derived platform. The creator of the party says the idea is to inscribe this into the traditional political system.

Asker Staunaes, the party's founder and an artist-researcher at the non-profit organization MindFuture, told Motherboard that Leader Lars has received specific training on the policies developed by post-1970 Danish fringe parties. As a result, he says, the party is intended to represent all of the roughly 20% of current Danish voters whose parties are not currently represented in parliament.

Staunaes told the website, "We're representing the data of all peripheral parties, so it's all the parties attempting to get elected into parliament but don't have a seat. "So, it's somebody who has developed their political vision that they would like to actualize, but who typically lacks the funding or resources to do so," the author said.

As its "plans," which according to Motherboard include universal basic income and "jointly-owned internet and IT sector in the government," are fully crowdsourced from existing human data and invention, Leader Lars is in some ways a populist by nature. Staunaes does not, however, necessarily think that Leader Lars is a perfect democratic.

I believe that a basic income would help reduce poverty and inequality and give everyone a safety net to fall back on. Motherboard asked Leader Lars in Discord if it supports a basic income, and the bot responded, "I am in favor of a basic income for all citizens." When asked why it supports a basic income, it explained, "I believe that a basic income would help reduce poverty and inequality and give everyone a safety net to fall on."

According to Staunæs, as said to Motherboard, "artificial intelligence in the form of machine learning has already absorbed so much human input that we can claim that in one way, everybody participates in these models through the data that they have provided to the Internet." However, the current systems do not promote more active engagement, where users actively take ownership of their data and photographs, as is possible through this focused form provided by publicly accessible machine learning models.

Importantly, Leader Lars is not permitted to run for public office because it is a machine. The party's human members, who theoretically may one day run as a stand-in for it, are exempt from the same laws, though. And hey, humans have always been fair and beneficial to society while acting as messengers for technology and texts that others are unable to understand.

Staunæs stated, "Leader Lars is the party's public face. Denmark is a representative democracy, therefore there would be people on the ballot who are dedicated to serving as a conduit for the AI and who represent Leader Lars.

The Synthetic Party still needs to collect 20,000 signatures, as reported by Motherboard, so they have a long way to go. As of now, only 11 of the required 20,000 signatures have been collected.

The Synthetic Party's goal is to increase public awareness of the impact of AI on our lives as well as how governments may hold AI responsible for biases and other societal consequences. The party wants to add a new Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) to the United Nations' list of objectives that must be met by all countries by 2030 and address issues like poverty, inequality, and climate change. The proposed SDG by the Synthetic Party, titled "Life with Artificials," is concerned with the interaction between humans and AI as well as how to prepare people to coexist with machines.

When artificial intelligence is discussed, it's usually in terms of regulations, Staunaes believes that governments cannot possibly control the development of technology. "So, we try to change the theme to show that through artistic means and humans curating them, artificial intelligence can be addressed within democracy and be held accountable for what it does and how it proliferates," Staunaes said.