The Case for a Computer-in-Chief

WATSON 2016: It's a placard you're unlikely to see in anyone's front lawn in the final months leading up to Election Day. You won't see the supercomputer on televised debates or speaking at national conventions. Watson never even leaves its room. None of this has stopped Watson's presidential campaign manager, Aaron Siegel, from stumping on behalf of IBM's hyper-intelligent, Jeopardy-winning supercomputer. An artist and design lecturer at the University of Southern California by day, Siegel began his campaign to elect an artificial intelligence to the highest office in the land last March, right around the time Republicans began announcing their candidacies en masse. Siegel was appalled by the general media spectacle surrounding the presidential race.