LCD Views can report on a sudden and accelerating interest in digital technology today. Soon after we made it up a rumour began circulating that governor of the 51st state of Trump’s America, Theresa May, said she was close to agreeing to another EU referendum to break a legislative deadlock at the state capital.
“This is likely to make Britain a world leader in AI technology,” LCD Views democratic science correspondent declared, “to actually achieve poll participating algorithms? To cut out the middle man or woman, i.e. the physical voter, well, think of the money governments will save? And think of the return on investment for all the dark money sloshing about in bot farms?”
While it’s not yet clear if the tech upgrade will be ready in time for any confirmatory referendum on the UK’s relationship with both the EU and America, it’s thought the government has its best people working on it.
“Anyone with business dealings who coincidentally happens to be an elected representative at Westminster has been asked to contribute. Especially MPs who’s social media accounts tend to get a lot of traffic from profiles with sub 100 followers, but set up years ago. We need experts on the case if we’re to make a success of it and get it done in time.”
Critics of the proposal have jumped on the bandwagon though, claiming it’s bad enough already with misinformation and prejudice being pumped through the veins of democracy via social media from bot farms, without actually letting the bots vote.
But what do we care what they’ve got to say, the people have decided and now it’s the turn of the bots to rule.