{"id":148341,"date":"2022-10-17T11:36:56","date_gmt":"2022-10-17T16:36:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/new-european-political-party-is-led-by-an-artificial-intelligence"},"modified":"2022-10-17T11:36:56","modified_gmt":"2022-10-17T16:36:56","slug":"new-european-political-party-is-led-by-an-artificial-intelligence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/new-european-political-party-is-led-by-an-artificial-intelligence","title":{"rendered":"New European Political Party Is Led by an Artificial Intelligence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-european-political-party-is-led-by-an-artificial-intelligence2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Introducing: The Synthetic Party, a new political party in Denmark that hopes to soon have a parliament seat. Oh, and by the way, its head honcho, Leader Lars, is actually an AI chatbot, and all of its policies are AI-derived. Cool?<\/p>\n<p>Asker Staun\u00e6s, the creator of the party and an artist-researcher at the nonprofit art and tech organization MindFuture, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vice.com\/en\/article\/jgpb3p\/this-danish-political-party-is-led-by-an-ai\" class=\"\">told <em>Motherboard<\/em><\/a> that Leader Lars is specifically trained on policies formed by post-1970 Danish fringe parties \u2014 and thus, he says, the party is designed to collectively represent the roughly 20 percent of present-day Danish voters whose parties remain unrepresented in parliament.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re representing the data of all fringe parties, so it\u2019s all of the parties who are trying to get elected into parliament but don\u2019t have a seat,\u201d Staun\u00e6s told the site. \u201cSo it\u2019s a person who has formed a political vision of their own that they would like to realize, but they usually don\u2019t have the money or resources to do so.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Introducing: The Synthetic Party, a new political party in Denmark that hopes to soon have a parliament seat. Oh, and by the way, its head honcho, Leader Lars, is actually an AI chatbot, and all of its policies are AI-derived. Cool? Asker Staun\u00e6s, the creator of the party and an artist-researcher at the nonprofit art [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-148341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148341\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}