Artificial Intelligence or AI is touted as the core of the fourth industrial revolution. Advocates believe it’s applications will be limitless. Interestingly, the majority of Europeans even believe lawmakers should be replaced with AI. Sam Shead had this information in CNBC. Here is an excerpt:

A study has found that most Europeans would like to see some of their members of parliament replaced by algorithms.

Researchers at IE University’s Center for the Governance of Change asked 2,769 people from 11 countries worldwide how they would feel about reducing the number of national parliamentarians in their country and giving those seats to an AI that would have access to their data.

The results, published Thursday, showed that despite AI’s clear and obvious limitations, 51% of Europeans said they were in favor of such a move.

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