An anonymous reader quotes a report from Motherboard: The Synthetic Party, a new Danish political party with an artificially intelligent representative and policies derived from AI, is eyeing a seat in parliament as it hopes to run in the country's November general election. The party was founded in May by the artist collective Computer Lars and the non-profit art and tech organization MindFuture Foundation. The Synthetic Party's public face and figurehead is the AI chatbot Leader Lars, which is programmed on the policies of Danish fringe parties since 1970 and is meant to represent the values of the 20 percent of Danes who do not vote in the election. Leader Lars won't be on the ballot anywhere, but the human members of The Synthetic Party are committed to carrying out their AI-derived platform. Leader Lars is an AI chatbot that people can speak with on Discord.

At this point in the film, with artificial intelligence (AI) creating art, music and chronicles, directing ships and planes, creating deepfakes that put the most experienced of views to the test and passing almost as human --or without the almost, that depending on who you ask--the question seems quite pertinent: why not let it set the course for governments? It sounds bizarre, but in the Kingdom of Denmark there are those who believe that it would be a barbaric idea. So much so, in fact, that he has already set in motion the administrative machinery to achieve it. At the end of May, the artist collective Computer Lars launched Det Syntetiske Parti, which translated into Spanish would be equivalent to El Partido Sintético. The name may be somewhat cryptic, but it captures part of the essence of the Danish formation: its artificial character and its effort to synthesize ideas, something that it has achieved by using precisely the possibilities offered by AI.