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Majority of Europeans would replace government with AI — oof, they’re so wrong


A recent survey conducted by researchers at the IE Center for the Governance of Change indicates that a majority of people would support replacing members of their respective parliaments with AI systems. Yikes. The majority might have this one wrong. But we’ll get into why in a moment. The survey Researchers interviewed 2,769 Europeans representing varying demographics. Questions ranged from whether they’d prefer to vote via smartphone all the way to whether they’d replace existing politicians with algorithms given the chance. Per the survey: 51% of Europeans support reducing the number of national parliamentarians and giving those seats to an…This story continues at The Next Web