{"id":65376,"date":"2022-08-05T12:29:42","date_gmt":"2022-08-05T09:29:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=65376"},"modified":"2025-09-06T19:34:31","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T16:34:31","slug":"danish-ai-driven-party-aims-to-enter-parliament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/danish-ai-driven-party-aims-to-enter-parliament\/","title":{"rendered":"Danish AI-driven party aims to enter parliament"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Danish political party whose ideology and programme is built around artificial intelligence intends to participate in the 2023 parliamentary elections. TechExplore<\/a> reports.<\/p>\n

In late May 2022, a group of artists called Computer Lars created the Synthetic Party (SP). They plan to reach around 15% of Danes who did not vote in 2019.<\/p>\n

The party believes that voters did not vote because none of the traditional political forces approached them.<\/p>\n

After analysing all written publications by Denmark’s micro-parties since 1970, SP’s artificial intelligence developed a programme. In the algorithm’s view, it reflects “the political views of an ordinary person”.<\/p>\n

Among the party’s proposals is the introduction of an unconditional basic income of 100,000 kroner ($13,700) per month. The amount is more than double the country\u2019s average wage.<\/p>\n

The SP also supports adding the 18th United Nations Sustainable Development Goal, which would allow “people and algorithms to coexist directly”.<\/p>\n

Voters can interact with the party’s artificial intelligence via a Discord channel.<\/p>\n

The creation of the SP is a mocking response to hundreds of small organisations that have emerged in recent years. Denmark is home to 230 micro-parties, including the Synthetic.<\/p>\n

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“This is a way to imitate the political process everywhere, but in direct confrontation with the machinery of lawmaking, law enforcement and organisational rights,” said one member of the collective, Asger Brild Staunaes.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The party has not yet secured sufficient support to participate in the 2023 elections. By law, a political force must collect 20,182 signatures to be included on the ballot, and currently they have only four.<\/p>\n

However, if the party succeeds in securing a seat in parliament, it plans to use its mandate to connect AI with the work carried out by members of the assembly.<\/p>\n

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“The idea is to take this enormous political and economic power [algorithms] \u2026 and try to embed it into the traditional political system,” said Staunaes.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

He added that at present “we do not have the capacity to address people’s and AI’s problems in democratic conditions”.<\/p>\n

In September 2022 the party plans to hold its first pre-election rally ‘for a live audience’.<\/p>\n

Earlier in July, Chinese researchers created an AI for assessing the loyalty of Communist Party members<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In June, researchers found that in 2018 Facebook promoted posts of local cells of the US Republican Party<\/a> despite competitors posting more often.<\/p>\n

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