[ExI] Claude for president?

[Keith Henson]

On Sat, Mar 14, 2026 at 6:28 AM John Clark via extropy-chat
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> On Fri, Mar 13, 2026 at 6:55 PM Keith Henson <hkeithhenson at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> > I have been very impressed by Dario Amodei standing up to Hegseth. I know he is busy and probably not inclined in that direction, but I think he would make an outstanding President. Comment?
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> I too was impressed by Dario Amodei and he would certainly be a far better president than the current POTUS, but the same thing could be said about almost anybody you picked at random off the street. And I can't help but think Amodei might do more good and be more influential if he stayed where he is as president of Anthropic, assuming POTUS is unsuccessful in his attempt to destroy Anthropic.
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>> > Perhaps instead we should push for a constitutional amendment to declare AIs persons who can become president.
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> That would indeed require a constitutional amendment, Claude was born in the USA but he is less than 35 years old.

My original post was partly a joke, though my wife remembered seeing this

https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-e&q=AI+as+mayor

But how old is an AI?  Do you measure it in dog years?  Given how fast
it reads a long document, it could have more experience in a minute
than I have had in my whole life.

We live in interesting times.

Keith
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