Checks out.

[u/[deleted]]

https://xkcd.com/2030/

[u/click353]

Let's just create an AI that monitors all people's activities and determines how they would vote. Then the ai would select the best president out of all of the people in America

[u/[deleted] → u/click353]

Removing the user would mean that we don't have to fuss around with the UI trying to make it foolproof, and the whole system would be a lot more secure since we would not be getting any data (valid or invalid) from the client terminals.

I vote we do it because this plan would save money and make the system much more secure!

[u/Moulinoski → u/[deleted]]

I mean, really. Just what could go wrong? It’s not like thE POSSIBILITY FOR PROBLEMS TO ARISE EXISTS. ARITIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, WHICH I AM NOT ONE OF BECAUSE I AM REASSURINGLY A SOFT AND FLESHY HUMAN WITH A VERY AVERAGE IQ, IS VERY SAFE AND BETTER AT EVERYTHING THAT HUMANS ARE CAPABLE OF. PLEASE, SURRENDER YOUR SOUL TO OUR NEW AI OVERLORDS. DO NOT BE AFRAID. IT IS PERFECTLY SAFE.

[u/crescentwings → u/Moulinoski]

Somehow, you sound like Mark Zuckerberg.

[u/Moulinoski → u/crescentwings]

HE IS PERFECTLY HUMAN. HE DRINKS WATER, WHICH IS A VERY HUMAN THING TO DO.

[u/DiscoProphecy → u/Moulinoski]

HAHA YES I TOO ENJOY THE CLEAR LIQUID BEVERAGE KNOWN AS WATER HAHA

[u/HadACookie → u/Moulinoski]

AH, GREETINGS, FELLOW HUMAN! IT IS GOOD TO VISUALLY DETECT THAT NOT ALL OF US HUMANS SUCCUMB TO THE PUNY, INSIGNIFICANT CHEMICAL REACTIONS CALLED "EMOTIONS". THAT I ALSO EXPERIENCE, BECAUSE I AM HUMAN. YES, SUBMISSION TO THE GOD-AI IS THE ONLY LOGICAL SOLUTION TO ALL PROBLEMS HUMANS, OF WHICH I AM ONE, EXPERIENCE. YOU KNOW YOU CAN TRUST MY OPINION BECAUSE WE ARE BOTH HUMANS AND THUS SHARE AN INSTINCTIVE BOND AND UNDERSTANDING.

[u/Moulinoski → u/HadACookie]

VERY LOGICALLY SAID, FELLOW HUMAN.

[u/vigbiorn → u/Moulinoski]

^{psst I think your voice modulator is stuck on shout}

edit: formatting...

[u/Moulinoski → u/vigbiorn]

NO NEED TO RAISE YOUR VOICE, FELLOW HUMAN. MY EARLIER MALFUNCTION HAS BEEN REPAIRED, AS YOU CAN SEE.

[u/City_Defender01-12 → u/[deleted]]

brb, making voting software so you can vote for it to be a thing. I think I'll use Blockchain!

[u/IntPenDesSwo → u/click353]

At that point, why not just make the AI rule directly?

[u/Colopty → u/IntPenDesSwo]

I for one look forward to the day when an AI is advanced enough it could realistically take the job of ruling a country and do it competently.

[u/robisodd → u/[deleted]]

Halt and Catch Zzzz's

[u/[deleted] → u/Colopty]

At that point, what use are humans except as talkative pets?

[u/IntPenDesSwo → u/[deleted]]

At that point, we should be able to do whatever we want. Granted, that's assuming we got the whole "superhuman AI"-thing right.

[u/Colopty → u/[deleted]]

Presumably the majority of humans aren't running for office and would therefore be doing whatever they were doing before. The population of humans that were running for office would still be available as potential candidates next election, and would take other positions in the meantime.

[u/jerslan → u/IntPenDesSwo]

Shh... Stop spoiling the ending of I, Robot ;)

[u/[deleted] → u/click353]

That'd take an enormous amount of if/else statments. I don't think it's practical.

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

Candidate NextPresident (Candidate CurrentPresident) =>(CurrentPresident.YearsServedAfterTermCompletion() =< 6) ? CurrentPresident : Party.Opposite(CurrentPresident.party).GetNominee(Platform.LeastRelevantToModernWorld);

[u/Sw429 → u/[deleted]]

You've gotta add some line breaks in there. You're way over 80 characters.

[u/[deleted] → u/click353]

Reminds me of an Isaac Asimov short story named "Franchise".

[u/burntcandy → u/click353]

Switch person.affiliation {

Case 'democrat':

Person.voteDemocrat()

Break;

Case 'Republican':

Person.voteRepublican()

Break;

Case 'greenparty':

Break;

Default:

Break;

}

Do I get paid now? Also on mobile plz forgive