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Would you vote for a rational Artificially Intelligent president?

10 points by coxaqui ↗ HN
Not a human hybrid but a pure silicon president.

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toonster
only if i knew the rule set that it was programmed with. and methods to handle exceptions.
coxaqui
How much understanding do we have of how the current politicians handle exceptions? i.e. Motivations, drive, true presonality etc.
pbhjpbhj
Very interesting idea, there must be some SciFi works on this subject.

Would the ePresident be fixed for their term of office (no upgrades whilst in post)? Could you ask it questions as a citizen before voting to know how it would respond for any given parameter set? Would it be programmed according to the Three Laws?

Perhaps all parties could submit an ePresident candidate and each could get a vote on all actions based on the proportion of the population who voted for it.

Millennium
No, because I would not accept it as sufficiently Artificially Intelligent until it had proven itself capable of irrationality.
reiz
Hello No. But it is a very interesting idea.
kbelbina
Only if it was open source, I'd be worried about people tampering with it to give it biases for special interests etc.
qompiler
The compiled version might be different. A solution would be to allow everyone to run a local copy of the president which gets the same data-feed so it would respond the same in all instances. The problem is of course that a president deals with confidential information which you don't want to just broadcast over a network for anyone to see.
informatimago
Yes. Anybody or anything but the current crops of politicians.
toutouastro
does "he" break the rules when they need to be borken ?does "he" have feelings ?
Stranger2013
Yes, coxaqui. Especially if the alternative is you destroying us.
andridk
As long as it follows the three laws of robotics, yes.
pfortuny
iPresident or gPresident? Or maybe President Blue or BBpres?

No: it would be government by engineering which is wrong. States are not machines.

mvaliente2001
The problem is not rationality, but the goals that rational being has to fulfill.
gadders
Would you not just end up with utilitarianism?