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Things are progressing just as https://youtu.be/xoVJKj8lcNQ predicted.

> so 2024 will be the last human election and what we mean by that is not that it's just going to be an AI running as president in 2028 but that will really be although maybe um it will be you know humans as figureheads but it'll be Whoever greater compute power will win

We saw already AI voices influencing elections in India https://restofworld.org/2023/ai-voice-modi-singing-politics/

> AI-generated songs, like the ones featuring Prime Minister Narendra Modi, are gaining traction ahead of India’s upcoming elections. [...] Earlier this month, an Instagram video of Modi “singing” a Telugu love song had over 2 million views, while a similar Tamil-language song had more than 2.7 million. A Punjabi song racked up more than 17 million views.



Unfortunately in the US there is a political party that is attacking education and doesn't want people to learn critical thinking skills at a time when critical thinking is sorely needed. They happen to really "love the poorly educated" for some reason.


classified tech is generally at least 10 years ahead of anything the public has access to. judging by how bizarre and polarizing the previous two US elections have been, i wouldn't be surprised if this prediction had already played out and we just didn't know it yet




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