According to Schwab, the envisioned future of elections doesn't entail direct individual voting; instead, it leans heavily on artificial intelligence to forecast the public's preferences for those in power.
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From The Blaze:
Schwab spoke to Google co-founder Sergey Brin on stage at the WEF gathering and discussed the predicting powers of AI technology.
"Digital technologies mainly have an analytical power; now we go into a predictive power, and we have seen the first examples, and your company very much evolved into it," he told the Google founder. "The next step could be to go into a prescriptive mode, which means you do not even have to have elections any more because you can already predict."
Next, with the audience eerily silent, Schwab then asked if elections would even be necessary given that the outcomes would already be predicted.
"Afterwards you can say 'why do we need elections?' because we know what the result will be."
Brin then pontificated about eliminating world leaders — replaced by an AI decision-making apparatus — and praised Schwab for his "profound" thoughts.
Schwab later explained that a "crucial issue" that needs to be tackled would be how humanity is viewed.
"We need new concepts to define what humanity is and what's the purpose of our lives is," Schwab asked, referring to the automation of agriculture and daily tasks. The WEF chairman predicted most menial tasks would become a job for AI.
Describing this as a frightening notion would be putting it mildly. While AI serves well in practical applications, replacing the fundamental freedom of individual voting with it is an extremely unconventional idea that paves the way for numerous potential issues.
