New European Political Party Is Led by an Artificial Intelligence

The Synthetic Party wants to have a seat in the parliament. All of its policies are derived from artificial intelligence. It's cool?

According to Asker Stauns, the creator of the party and an artist-researcher at the nonprofit art and tech organization MindFuture, the party is designed to collectively represent the policies of post-1970 Danes.

Stauns told the site that all of the fringe parties are trying to get elected but don't have a seat. It's a person who has formed a political vision of their own that they would like to realize, but they don't have the money or resources to do so.

According to the leader's "policies", which include universal basic income and "jointly-owned internet and IT sector in the government", are all based on existing human data. Stauns doesn't think Leader Lars is perfect democratic.

"Artificial intelligence in the form of machine learning, has already absorbed so much human input that we can say that everybody participates in these models through the data that they have submitted to the Internet," Stauns said. "But the systems as we have today are not encouraging more active participation, where people actually take control of their data and images, which we can in another way through this concentrated form that publically available machine learning models offer."

Leader Lars can't run for public office because he's a machine. The same rules don't apply to the human members of the party. Humans serving as messengers for technologies and texts that others can't understand have always been good for society.

Stauns said that leader Lars is the figurehead. "Denmark is a representative democracy and so would have humans on the ballot that are representing Leader Lars and who are committed to acting as a medium for the Artificial Intelligence."

The Synthetic Party has only 11 signatures out of 20,000 needed, so they have a long way to go. We're considering taking over/under bets on leader getting a chair in parliament before Zuck gets his legs.

There is a political party that is led by an artificial intelligence.