In the last Presidential election in the U.S, voter turnout hovered around 67 percent. The European Union’s parliamentary elections saw 42 percent. And in New York City’s last mayoral election, just 24 percent of residents turned out to cast a ballot. Our collective participation in the project of democracy is quite a bit less than ideal.
This plan for an AI-based direct democracy outsources votes to an algorithm
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