I feel deeply disappointed in our political class. I listen to their statements, mostly run over, hurried, messy. I see that their actions and negotiations are manipulated by power deals that make the country look like a pirate’s booty.

Politics seems to have ceased to be a way of achieving the common good, justice and development of the people. Politics today is a vulgar spectacle, tasteless, where it is more important to point the finger than to extend a hand.

Maybe it’s just a symptom of a society that also doesn’t contribute much, and that ultimately chooses them.

Hundreds of thousands of workers in poor countries enabling AI systems like ChatGPT (and why they’re controversial)

A society in which everything is sought quickly and easily, without much critical thinking and in the short term, because a bird in the hand is better.

A society that hides behind the paradox of uncertainty, when we have never experienced a time of greater security: we know what traffic is like, how long it takes for a package to arrive, where people are in real time, we have access to all the information we need, to the whole story and beyond, we choose what we choose.

ChatGPT and DALL-E: who is Sam Altman, an entrepreneur who wants to transform the world of artificial intelligence

(…) artificial intelligence is smart enough not to enter our Parliament and political spaces.

So in this hyper-technological world, an idea occurred to me: what if we replaced politicians and government officials with artificial intelligence? If we set up a political operation with OpenAI’s ChatGPT or anything like it, let it run without emotion, based on statistics. No populist speeches, no deals under the table, no bank accounts.

If artificial intelligence can write lyrics, songs, write essays and create stories, can it legislate, revise and make decisions quickly, objectively, without all the costs associated with maintaining the political apparatus?

The temptation is great. I started researching and finally decided to ask ChatGPT himself, what would happen if we replaced the politicians in Ecuador with artificial intelligence? He replied: “In theory, AI could make more objective, data-driven decisions than Ecuador’s human politicians, because it would not be influenced by prejudice, personal interests or political agendas. However, there would be significant problems with accountability and transparency. If anything if it goes wrong, who would be responsible? How could the decisions made by AI be explained to the population? How can it be ensured that AI is not manipulated by special interests?” At the end, he added that artificial intelligence will be limited by the quality and quantity of available data, and the quality of algorithms and models used to process that data, i.e. it would be based on past decisions and information from our political life, it would go round and round . A sad conclusion, although it sounded more like an apology. It gave me the feeling that artificial intelligence is smart enough not to enter our Parliament and political spaces. Better stick to making memes.

Fortunately or unfortunately, the responsibility will remain ours. (OR)