📦 On Thursday, July 4, parliamentary elections were held in the United Kingdom. What sets these apart from all previous elections is AI Steve, an avatar created with the help of artificial intelligence, who participated as a candidate. However, AI Steve did not manage to get enough votes to secure a place in parliament.

In fact, he came last in his constituency, Brighton Pavilion, behind all other candidates.

🦾 AI Steve was designed by Steve Endacott, a businessman who had previously tried his luck in British politics but without success. In an interview, he stated that voters are generally uninterested and old-fashioned, and that politicians do not pay attention to the younger population and the trends through which they could reach them.

What would have happened if AI Steve had been elected as an MP? 🧐

AI Steve was never actually a candidate. He was just an innovatively designed campaign, while the real candidate was Steve Endacott. In other words, if he had received enough votes, Endacott would have become an MP, with all the rights and obligations of that position. In that case, AI Steve would probably have remained as a platform for citizen communication with him, as Endacott himself announced the possibility of forming a party composed of AI avatars.

👉 Artificial intelligence already has great potential in creating political campaigns. For example, if it has sufficiently updated statistical data, ChatGPT can provide information on what the voter structure looks like in a particular constituency, analyze what they might need, and what you as a candidate can offer them.

However, there are no indications that an entity created with artificial intelligence or a humanoid robot could become a political actor like in a sci-fi movie anytime soon. But you never know...