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The aim of this chapter is to analyse the characteristics underlying the design, application and use of mathematical models for Artificial intelligence in political decision-making processes. The phenomenon of digital transformation in conjunction with the adoption of digital solutions to enhance social organisation, as well as the malaise undermining the development of modern democracies, has led to the emergence of a range of proposals for democratic models based on Artificial intelligence algorithms. As a result we now face the phenomenon of algorithmic democracy, whose characteristics include the emerging trend of replacing political representatives with algorithms endowed with Artificial intelligence.
“And the great Byerley was simply a robot.” – (…) –“You share a prejudice against robots which is quite unreasoning. He was a very good Mayor; five years later he did become Regional Co-ordinator. And when the Regions of Earth formed their Federation in 2044, he became the first World Co-ordinator. By that time it was the Machines that were running the world anyway.”
Isaac Asimov, I, Robot (1950: 194)
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García-Marzá, D., Calvo, P. (2024). The Virtual Politician: On Algorithm-Based Political Decision-Making. In: Algorithmic Democracy. Philosophy and Politics - Critical Explorations, vol 29. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-53015-9_3
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