Towards an artificially intelligent politics - Technical.ly Brooklyn

If this year's selection of electable decisionmakers feels like it leaves something to be desired, then here's a story for you. Imagine a world without politicians, or, really, politics. Policy options are instead plugged into a sophisticated program and 1,000 or 100,000 simulations are made. Likely outcomes of the policy change are analyzed and unintended consequences are made visible. Politics are reduced to an argument over what inputs should take precedence in the model, not over what decision to make, and the arguments have to contend with data, which takes precedence over all.