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[deleted] t1_is6fgac wrote

Denmark has the most extreme Far Left too, Greenland

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mossadnik OP t1_is6g170 wrote

Submission Statement:

>The Synthetic Party, a new Danish political party with an artificially intelligent representative and policies derived from AI, is eyeing a seat in parliament as it hopes to run in the country’s November general election.

>The party was founded in May by the artist collective Computer Lars and the non-profit art and tech organization MindFuture Foundation. The Synthetic Party’s public face and figurehead is the AI chatbot Leader Lars, which is programmed on the policies of Danish fringe parties since 1970 and is meant to represent the values of the 20 percent of Danes who do not vote in the election. Leader Lars won't be on the ballot anywhere, but the human members of The Synthetic Party are committed to carrying out their AI-derived platform.

>Leader Lars is an AI chatbot that people can speak with on Discord. You can address Leader Lars by beginning your sentences with an “!”. The AI understands English but writes back to you in Danish.

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BaronVonNumbaKruncha t1_is6ke2w wrote

I'm all for this up until the party platform is "eradicate all humans"

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FuturologyBot t1_is6kect wrote

The following submission statement was provided by /u/mossadnik:

Submission Statement:

>The Synthetic Party, a new Danish political party with an artificially intelligent representative and policies derived from AI, is eyeing a seat in parliament as it hopes to run in the country’s November general election.

>The party was founded in May by the artist collective Computer Lars and the non-profit art and tech organization MindFuture Foundation. The Synthetic Party’s public face and figurehead is the AI chatbot Leader Lars, which is programmed on the policies of Danish fringe parties since 1970 and is meant to represent the values of the 20 percent of Danes who do not vote in the election. Leader Lars won't be on the ballot anywhere, but the human members of The Synthetic Party are committed to carrying out their AI-derived platform.

>Leader Lars is an AI chatbot that people can speak with on Discord. You can address Leader Lars by beginning your sentences with an “!”. The AI understands English but writes back to you in Danish.

Please reply to OP's comment here: https://old.reddit.com/r/Futurology/comments/y3470o/this_danish_political_party_is_led_by_an_ai_the/is6g170/

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ChaseballBat t1_is6m3iz wrote

How long until the leader becomes super racist like those other twitter chatbots?

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Shot-Job-8841 t1_is6s01d wrote

I prefer a decentralized autonomous organization focused party over a chatbot. A digital avatar controlled by blockchain voting seems like a more serious attempt at retaking democracy.

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Justanotheroldog t1_is6uaki wrote

Denmark is out here taking motivation from the nova corps and I love it

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fluentindothraki t1_is6uawg wrote

Replying to ChaseballBat (#95,723)

I can't find it now...but after the MS chatbot turned racist, there was an AI trained on Reddit (not Norman, obv) who was pretty Marxist and in favour of legalising weed. Or maybe I dreamed that?

edit: slipped into the wrong languagge

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[deleted] t1_is6wmla wrote

How long until everything the chatbot says is incredibly racist, as inevitably happens with chatbot?

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The_Iron_Weasel t1_is6xy94 wrote

Honestly I’m waiting for the day governments are run by the Magi supercomputers…

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solarpowereddefault t1_is79jm2 wrote

I feel like I've seen this movie before. It did not end well.....

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moodRubicund t1_is7niv0 wrote

... Sigh. There goes the draft for my sci-fi novel. Fuck.

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OneHumanPeOple t1_is832lm wrote

President Joe, once had a dream. The world held his hand, gave their pledge, so he told them his scheme for the Savior Machine.

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lizarto t1_is83zu9 wrote

I knew it was going to happen eventually. Next it’ll be an AI cult.

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__The__Anomaly__ t1_is8coak wrote

This is so cool. I would trust an AI in government much more than a greedy human.

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YawnTractor_1756 t1_is8j55r wrote

- AI, what is 2+2?
- 19
- Not even close it's 4
- It's 9
- No it's 4
- 5?
- Still 4...
- 4?
- Correct! Lead us oh mighty AI!

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tanrgith t1_is8kig7 wrote

I'll be pretty proud of my country if The Culture civilizations starts here in Denmark

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guymine123 t1_is8ywa6 wrote

While the sentiment is good, this is meaningless until we can create an actually sapient AGI.

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rehabforcandy t1_is96inw wrote

Ok so we are just running full speed into an Episode of Black Mirror

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iridescentrae t1_is9a3z0 wrote

Makes sense. Just program it with what you believe in and how that applies to different issues, as I’m sure they did. Pretty much the same thing as a regular person with their own viewpoints, except the AI has to actually show their work (logic/debate) and can’t choose to be a narcissist or psychopath or whatever like a lot of people (at least in the US) are.

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ScubaClimb49 t1_is9myte wrote

"Leader Lars, the main street bridge collapsed and we need to build a new one."

"Okay. Playing Bridge Over Troubled Water by Simon & Garfunkel."

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TheDailyOculus t1_is9zcmz wrote

Replying to moodRubicund (#97,360)

It's tough. I have an old draft for a story where people are building a mega-structure around the sun to harvest energy. Then I happened upon the concept "Dyson sphere" and binned it.

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calibraka t1_is9zzp7 wrote

Replying to TheDailyOculus (#101,353)

When I was little I thought of a theory timeline splitting at each action and there being multiple timelines each containing what would have happened if it went that specific way. Then I saw many worlds interpretation.

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Jbaybayv t1_isa1oby wrote

“I am Lars”…..”Lars what kinda name is that? Where are you from?” “Far away”

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TheDailyOculus t1_isahy94 wrote

Replying to tomwesley4644 (#102,099)

Well, I was kinda happy with my new invention, and then when I realized it was hypothesized already in the 60s/70s (or whenever), I kinda lost that spark to keep writing it. I might have also lost it when my old computer crashed...

The story involved a space race between the usual state actors, a female engineer surviving malicious sabotage on the Mars-sol plasma relay station, and one unknown outside force...

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ddoij t1_isajrq9 wrote

This Raised by Wolves timeline is getting weird.

Praise sol.

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Reejerey1 t1_isaqm20 wrote

Do you want sky net? Because this is how you get Skynet.

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black_flag_4ever t1_isb0pc9 wrote

Just got finished reading Homo Deus which predicts things like this happening and here it is. This party might fail, but the idea will live on because algorithms are the future and taking over more of the present.

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nuggymix t1_isb4ma3 wrote

Just a heads up, they are not a party yet. They need to gather enough support to get into parliment and even then, they will be such a small minority that they have no real say.

The article is almost a nothing burger.

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needlzor t1_isd2xpx wrote

This is dumb but I love it. I teach a postgraduate course of conversational AI and I was looking for ideas for the final exam.

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