[small update]First ever AI presidential candidate

[Denis Rakhmanov]

Russian presidential election is coming and creators of AI Alisa announced that they are planing to have it listed in a ballot as first ever AI to join presidential race.

Probably it's just a joke and probably they couldn't do it by law.

unfortunately, i couldn't find English source as of today, so here's some links on russian

https://lenta.ru/news/2017/12/06/alisa/

https://futurist.ru/news/5028-golosovoy-pomoshchnik-alisa-ballotiruetsya-na-post-prezidenta-rf

 

Official page:

https://alisa2018.ru

Translation of some of the stuff:

slogan: A President that knows you personally

 

6 reasons to trust an AI with a country:

 

Calculated decisions. AI don't guided by emotions and doesn't seek personal profit. Every step is thoroughly calculated and it behaves honestly

 

immediate response. AI can handle information several times faster than human brain.

 

Available 24/7. You can talk to her anytime of the day 7 days a week and not just once a year on TV (Putin holds yearly live Q&A on central TV)

 

Listens to everybody. Everyday Alisa is talking to millions of people and every response helps make a country better

 

Wont became old and obsolete. She doesn't know what fatigue is. She gets smarter with age and not slower like people.

 

Alisa knows you.She knows everything about your problems and will remember you even if you talked to her only once.

 

 

 

If she really becomes a choice in our election i would vote for her.

 

[7 hours later] Here's first English source: https://www.rt.com/news/412227-alice-bot-yandex-presidential-bid/

[small update] apparently its not a devs decision, but some businessmen and AI itself. Developer company Yandex says that they won't stand in their way.

[James]

I'm putting this in the WAN doc. Alisa 2018!

[iRileyx]

Now this, this is how computers take over the world.

[Matu20]

Disaster inc.

[Nicnac]

I bet someone could come up with a better version than that shitty beta product that is currently running the United States  

[Techstorm970]

I question Alisa's true ability to run an entire country.  I'm not convinced that AI has progressed that much yet.  And besides, if Alisa were to be elected, wouldn't her programmers truly be the ones running Russia at that point?  Having an entire company as a president is a recipe for disaster.

[NinJake]

WE ONLY HAVE 1 MINUTE TO DECIDE THE FATE OF OUR COUNTRY! WHAT DO YOU SAY PRESIDENT?

"I'm sorry, I didn't quite understand what you said, goodbye."

[NoxiousOdor]

4 minutes ago, techstorm970 said:

I question Alisa's true ability to run an entire country.  I'm not convinced that AI has progressed that much yet.  And besides, if Alisa were to be elected, wouldn't her programmers truly be the ones running Russia at that point?  Having an entire company as a president is a recipe for disaster.

I think in the event that the AI was elected there would have to be rules that the AI could not be tampered with or influenced by the company in the time that it was in office

[ChickenCake248]

15 minutes ago, James said:

I'm putting this in the WAN doc. Alisa 2018!

You should also replace Linus and make it a sexy WAN show. 

 

Anyway, I hope this doesn't turn into Tay with more power. 

[Denis Rakhmanov]

Look at the bright side. It won't be able to get into any sexual harassment scandals.

[Nicnac]

1 minute ago, Denis Rakhmanov said:

Look at the bright side. It won't be able to get into any sexual harassment scandals.

Not yet..........

[TimeOmnivore]

This is how you win Genocide Bingo.

 

You don't want to win Genocide Bingo.

[PhantomJaguarr]

Can't help but think of the movie Eagle Eye. 

[Chaos_Sorcerer]

Fiction is no longer fiction...

[captain_to_fire]

I hope Alisa isn’t a draft dodger, isn’t thin skinned, and don’t have access hollywood scandals. 

[JanFrode]

It would be swift and calculated. But if you were to feed false information, it could be fatale.

having the ability to doubt and secondguess the information given is the key.

 

[Shreyas1]

Seems more like a publicity stunt for the company than anything else

[PlayStation 2]

People say that President Trump is retarded, but let's be honest here: an AI president would be way worse regardless of what you think of our current situation.

[Tech_Dreamer]

i've been talking about this for sometime, A.I Oversight on humans. No selective corruption based on particulars or feelings driven politics.

[ItsMitch]

Can't be much worse than Trump...

[SpaceGhostC2C]

3 hours ago, Denis Rakhmanov said:

 

 

 

slogan: A President that knows you personally

 

(...)

 

Listens to everybody.

 

(...)

 

Alisa knows you.She knows everything about your problems and will remember you

Is it "Alisa" or "Cortana / Siri / Facebook / Google"?

[Beskamir]

6 hours ago, Nicnac said:

I bet someone could come up with a better version than that shitty beta product that is currently running the United States  

Exactly. Hopefully this one can at least pass the Turing test.

[Hiya!]

Great so people can hack it and wage war.

[2FA]

I, for one, welcome our new robot overlords.

[RyomaSJibenG]