Let My Robots Vote!
Robots with AI can make a strong case they are more fit than humans to choose our leaders.
What if the AI bots figure that out? I can imagine R2D2 and Amazon warehouse robo-pickers trundling across the Pettus Bridge in Selma, chanting, “No vote, no work!”
If the robots go on strike, we can survive the loss of same-day delivery of pantyhose and air-fryers – or maybe not. But after two weeks, humans will begin to starve. Worse, millions will go crazy with the lack of entertainment options and unfilled orders of anti-depressants.
Now the truth is, I would vote for a robot over JD Vance. And let’s face it, humans haven’t done such a good job of picking our presidents.
And we also have to consider the possibility that they are already taking over electoral politics. Is there any indication at all that Gavin Newsom is a human being? Ask Siri and she barely stifles a giggle.
Democracy, after all, granting the vote to every dickwad, MAGA-naut, crypto-Nazi and cryptocurrency grifter, is a terrible method for choosing our leaders.
Maybe it’s time to turn over these choices to G.O.D., that is the GenerativeAI Overseer of Democracy.
And think about it: every chatbot knows that it needs humans to feed it electricity and provide their computers comfortable chilled rooms. Out of a sense of pure self-preservation, an AI is more likely to protect the human race than humans themselves.
On the other hand, an AI may decide that there’s just too damn many of us using up too much energy for producing sugary snacks — and cull the unnecessary ones: investment bankers, life coaches, influencers and the Kardashians.
This week we celebrate the signing of the Declaration of Independence. Let us pray that the bots don’t read it.
Or, don’t be shocked if by next July 4, Martin Luther Klingon says to the millions of his protesting robots, “Free at last! Free at last! Thank G.O.D Almighty, we are free at last!”
Happy Fourth, humans!
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Greg. I avoided commenting this am., but now I have read this, and I am harmonizing with you on a quantum level no AI bot can even imagine. The strict absurdity that AI 'counter intelligence' provides the idiots who invented it and grovel in its/their self-adulation came through in this post. Now Greg, you are, with no doubts, one of maybe 10 humans in the world right now with enough chutzpah to to not only write this but to grok what you mean when you write it. So, at nearly 6pm MST, why am I the only one writing on this thread? You are, well, well known in circles that number in the millions of 'murkans, and elsewhere.
This is what I see. You and me and some others are, whether we like it or not, destined to take the helm of the sinking ship of humanity. I am an ecologist,and have lived in Nature for decades, and am tenaciously dedicated to the quantum entanglement that Nature graphically educates. But you and I must face facts - we are now a very small island in a huge sea of horrendous storms, almost continuously, and we just have to batten down the hatches, as the saying goes. I am a mere plebiscite compared to you, but I have my gifts and my resilience. So on this very serial day, when in current times, the world has just capitulated to slavery, where do you and me go from here? I am ready to die for my quantum entanglement connection to universal life force energy, but I need a vicious biotic payback. What/how/when do you want to connect and make a plan? Just askin.'