{"id":32746,"date":"2016-12-16T10:48:11","date_gmt":"2016-12-16T18:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/prepare-for-the-real-political-game-changer-robots-with-votes"},"modified":"2017-06-04T08:57:40","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T15:57:40","slug":"prepare-for-the-real-political-game-changer-robots-with-votes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/prepare-for-the-real-political-game-changer-robots-with-votes","title":{"rendered":"Prepare for the real political game changer: robots with votes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/prepare-for-the-real-political-game-changer-robots-with-votes.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>My new story for <i>New Scientist<\/i> on robot voting rights. This story came about because of my discussion with Professor Lawrence Lessig on the BBC World Service. To read my article, you may have to sign up for a free <i>New Scientist<\/i> account (it takes 1 minute). Please do it! It\u2019s an important article. Gerrymandering in the AI and &amp; robot age: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/mg23231043-300-prepare-for-the-real-political-game-changer-robots-with-votes\/\">https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/mg23231043-300-prep\u2026ith-votes\/<\/a> #transhumanism<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>If human-like AI comes to fruition then we may have grant voting rights to our silicon equals. Democracy will change forever, says <b>Zoltan Istvan<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/mg23231043-300-prepare-for-the-real-political-game-changer-robots-with-votes\/\">https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/mg23231043&#45;300-prep...ith-votes\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My new story for New Scientist on robot voting rights. This story came about because of my discussion with Professor Lawrence Lessig on the BBC World Service. To read my article, you may have to sign up for a free New Scientist account (it takes 1 minute). Please do it! It\u2019s an important article. Gerrymandering [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":267,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1501],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai","category-transhumanism-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32746","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\/267"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32746"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32746\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59447,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32746\/revisions\/59447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}