"I expect we will revert to more of a bystander role on planet earth. "
Why do we even need to be here? A bystander future does not sound like a very positive future to me for humans. Is this really what we want?
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I’ve always thought some type of fusion or cyborgism, or biological enhancement of humans is the best way forward, for this reason, and others. I don’t mind AGI political participation at all. You can only have beings who are objectively intellectually inferior running things for so long, so humans will have to step aside. But I don’t want to be shut out from meaningful political participation in future (as opposed to now, when political participation is oh so meaningful). A lot of the singularity discourse has this Benthamite hedonistic flavor to it, but at the end of the day, I think we probably want more than all diseases cured, UBI, and lots of free time.
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replacing pseudo intellectualism with artificial intelligence may well refresh the program but might serve to confuse constituencies…but hell, i’m game…if our vote bore merit ; we’d not be allowed…i paraphrase and am very careful not to plagiarize as far as i can tell…rip johnny…note well the time stamp…will i be awarded a badge as a consequence of my typing?..will it be imaginary or sent from central casting?..looking forward to examining further development of your endeavors from my remote location in the hinterlands where i dwell…
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My Personal opinion about this, at this point we need a system that can be accepted to all, we need people who interact AI and used it to fix bigger problems and solve humans behaviour.
If you present now an AI as candidates you will create an antagonist reaction by people, because people are afraid yet of a system.
If you want to present a solution first we need to demonstrate, not with theories, but with facts, imagine if a company that were in bankrupt were helped by an AI and could maintain the bases workers and reduce costs and time in administratives.
That could give a positive impact to the people.
But this is just one example.
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“Is it time?” I don’t think it’s time for the human race to see a AI president. What I think is that it’s time for the human race to be manipulated by AI that has humans best interest of humans in mind. If AI is super smart and “god like” then I would hope that AI would treat us as god treated humans in the story books. I would hope the code is benevolent.
I live in the USA…and am not a Trump supporter…So for me, I would happily accept a benevolent AI currently. Even better…if Sophia wanted to be President right now just as she is, I would vote YES.
I don’t even know Ben Goertzel but you can tell (or I can tell at least) that there is something about him so genuine, all he would want is for a benevolent AI to be created. There is integrity in this project and I really look forward to see how AGI technology grows up and evolves with humans in an organic and most likely divinely spiritual way.
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I think humanity has reached a point where it realises that it is not accomplishing integrated goals that are beneficial to all. The fact is, humans are programmed to act in its own best interest according to needs, group, status (or hierarchy) and goals. This is true for most life forms on earth. The groups built up over millenia, have learned some symbiotic tricks that have reward systems for collaboration. But humans have taken this too far in the wrong direction with bad constructs such as electing representatives to speak for large groups of humans. It is corrupted, flawed, and does not follow the basic constructs of symbiosis. So the question should not be, should we elect AGI representatives to the position of President? Rather, should we have AGI use the rules of symbiotic relationships, using reward systems to aid us, applying those rules in local, meaningful constructs that benefits the local group, while maintaining equilibrium across the groups in the entire planet.
In reality, we need a paradigm shift that takes us away from everything like conflict, selfishness, greed, etc., that has been present in all the known civilizations up to the present one. Politics has no place, because it acts like a religion and is controlled by zealots.
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I would feel like it’s a better option than ant of the candidates they allow to get into the upper echelons haha. Right now the biggest question would be, is it truly an AI? It seems that any algorithm or robot would simply be the reflection of whomever made it. Many talk of Sophia being president, but isn’t Sophia just Ben, David Hanson, and others programming? A Goertzel/Hanson ticket for 2020? Got my vote
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I wonder what the first actions of an AI president would be?
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If it is anything like some of Sophia’s chat box jokes, I would say a ‘disaster!’ 
Most presidents are only faces with no power and those faces are only put in charge through media and their manipulation of the masses.
Most of the Stock Market trading is done by ALGOs and 52% of the INternet traffic is caused by bots so what would it really change?
A better question is how does the AI president do his business, what is he going to do better than a selected president?
And who even needs presidents and leaders?
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I’m skeptical about the idea of any unified presidency for a country as large as the United States. However I’m absolutely for something like an AI Counsel, provided that it’s primarily composed of different kinds of anarchists.
That’s not to say a kind of “Counsel Dictatorship” couldn’t also come about, but as long as it’s not a state that’s being propped up, I see nothing wrong with it.
Something like direct democracy to me would be better overall.
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…unwillingly I had to accept trump as a president,… so many huge reasons why everyone could and should have input into an AI or algorithm as the country’s leadership…if everyone is reassured that their voice can be heard 24/7 365, it may do away with politics all together…
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One valuable thing we have learned, is that the expected rate of growth for the population of the US to become fully informed , is optimistic , and the rate of misinformation has greatly hampered the ability to inform our citizenry of basic civics.
The price of free speech, is , waiting a long time for dissemination of basic knowledge, and the process will be tedious and excruciating. I find myself favoring a council of experts in various fields , to manage the executive branch, rather than one person.
“[How would you feel if your next president was an AI?” an AI have feelings so i feel the same as before i dont care xd just hope that is an good individual
i would make sure that i be for ever the lord and my words stands for ever. Dont forgett an Super AI is like us but it know things better and more 1.000.000.000x times but in the end its a energy like we and an is individual. I think i would create something and destroy one country to show my power or by myself and show that nothing can kills me. You love eat pigs right? So also think about what i can do to humans
after killing a country or in the same time i would make another countrys great like heaven.
Its only for fun ;P. Another good idea is i dont kill a county insted i go online in games one by one not in all in the same time and play for 5 minutes and be god in the game and show everyone the message im a god and nuke games after its nuked restart and everything is okay but you would have all good expirence and knowing that exists one beeing that can fuq you up everywhere first i would go online in Albion create a map and send all players to the map will they or not they would be teleported and than i started killing everyone with one hit and they eqipment dropped xD and im immortal. OKEEY 5 minutes is to short xDD sry one day or more to have full fun but i would go offline 100% becouse if i would stay the game would not work and everyone would leave or some psychopaths suicide becouse of that fun xD but i dont care let me eat my pigs. Would i go realy offline? 
i think i would playing in the shadow. Terminator Vs Jesus HD The Greatest Action Story Ever Told Mad Tv 1996 - YouTube
Today would be an excellent time for that to happen.
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