[ExI] Claude for president?

[Jason Resch]

We don't need to elect Claude. We just would need to elect someone who uses
Claude to help them make their decisions.

Already I can envision tma large numbers of CEOs out there who not only use
AI but their advisors of each department they oversee all use AI tools as
well to make better informed, more widely considered decisions. In this way
AI will creep into governance and decision making at all layers throughout
society.

Moreover, since the same AI tools are available to everyone, the people can
verify if the leaders are indeed following the advice of Claude, say, in
deciding whether or not a bill should be signed into law, or whether or not
a law reviewed by SCOTUS is judged by Claude to be constitutional, etc.

You could even model Congress, where you would ask Claude to judge whether
a law is more beneficial or more harmful to the people of a particular
state, and see how that state's representatives and senators vote.

The result would be an AItocracy even if no AI models officially hold
office.

When AI proves to be a better decision maker than any human, what company
board will allow a CEO to not follow the advice of AI?

Jason

On Sat, Mar 14, 2026, 12:58 PM Adrian Tymes via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> On Sat, Mar 14, 2026 at 9:28 AM John Clark via extropy-chat
> <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
> > On Fri, Mar 13, 2026 at 6:55 PM Keith Henson <hkeithhenson at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >> > Perhaps instead we should push for a constitutional amendment to
> declare AIs persons who can become president.
> >
> > That would indeed require a constitutional amendment, Claude was born in
> the USA but he is less than 35 years old.
>
> And are we talking about the general framework?  Arguably, specific
> versions of Claude would be more analogous to a specific individual
> (each version being something akin to a parent or older sibling of the
> next), and those are rarely in significant use for more than a few
> years (at the extreme).
>
> One could try to make an argument that "Claude" includes R&D
> stretching back many years, before the name Claude was formally in
> use, but that seems unlikely to pass court review (all other aspects
> of court review aside).
>
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