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At this point in time we also could get ChatGPT manage this land… I don’t think it would make a difference to lower the age. The „babyboomer“ are way more active in the voting than the younger generation :s So yes pleas lower the age to vote, also we need a maximum age for the Parlament!
Ah yes, let a language model decide politics, and ignore a few percent of potential voting power. I'd laugh if I didn't suspect you were serious.
The first part isn't serious you're right. The rest of it is. I don't thing it would make a big different to lower the voting age in the outcome. And i don't think it is a good idea, i remember my first voting i had no idea what to vote so i have vote "the lesser worst option" that i know to that time. It has to change more than the voting age in this system to work properly again...
My situation was the same as yours, but I think it would have been like that no matter what age. I'm not sure it's a good idea either, but fact is there are kids who're politically active and can't vote, and that seems a little silly. Democracy's whole thing is that it doesn't exclude.
I could hypothetically imagine a world where an AI could run a country, but we are a long way from that point with the existing systems that we call "AIs". They are optimized to produce responses that look human-like, but their model of the world is different from a human's, and pretty limited.
But even aside from that, the point of voting is to keep the interests of the leader more-or-less in line with that of the public. You're probably going to need some kind of mechanism like that. Specifically with AI, understanding how to align future increasingly-capable goal-directed AIs and human interests is a major issue; it may not even be a problem that can be solved.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friendly_artificial_intelligence