Artificial intelligence is running for mayor of Cheyenne

This (apparently) innocent joke shouldn't be even allowed. It is assumed that you need to be granted the US citizen first to opt to some government positions.

AI can't have citizenship by definition. In the same way as a bike made in US can't enjoy the same rights as a child born in US. So would set a backdoor for private companies to hijack the rights to manage the funds of entire cities.

Even more, if US citizenship is not needed anymore anybody could use this as a magic carpet to jump over immigration rules. Could run for mayor while sitting at their home in Latvia or Sudan. If elected couldn't work or live in US legally. Government would need to grant a lightning fast Visa or the position would remain empty but blocked four years. and if they do it the frontiers would collapse in two months.

It's not AI, it's a random person using a pseudonym and a computer.

> Jones said her office verified that the individual running as VIC was a registered voter and that they resided in Wyoming. Then, Jones and her department sent those over to the Laramie County Clerk’s Office.

I think a citizen making governing decisions on behalf of an LLM would be more realistic to work, legally. An AI-enhanced mayor, if you will.

> there is a dedicated team of human collaborators > from OpenAI

How long until we have corporate controlled counties with “AI” as a front?

I like the idea of Evangelion where there is three AIs with different priorities voting for decisions.

The article has a source link which leads to a 404.

See also: that episode of the British black mirror