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Steve Endacott is the name of the subject behind the avatar created with artificial intelligence that will be displayed as candidate for a seat in the British Parliament.

This is a businessman from southern England who wants his figure to be like that present in the House of Commons as a representative: “I founded my own party after becoming disillusioned with how distant other parties were from the British population,” said Endacott.

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AI Steve claims that only policies with more than 50% support will be adopted on its platform. If elected, you will physically attend Parliament, where you will vote on policies based on live input your AI platform receives.

Endacott describes himself as a working class man who “understood the value of money and fully appreciated that the success of his business exploits had brought him relatively large fortunes.” That is, too “very concerned” about the environment.

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Especially considering that this idea is intended to represent citizens Brighton and Hovethe creator assured that its purpose was for humans to possess “permanent access to leave your opinions and create policies”.

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On a website dedicated to the campaign namely Steveseeks to recruit users who want to join a team of “creators” who will help brainstorm new policies that can be included in innovative technologies.

Backers can also be validators, and Steve asks them to do so “spending just a few minutes a week” to “act as a control mechanism to stop unreasonable policies”rate each policy suggestion from one to ten.

“No need to know anything about artificial intelligence, because all you need to do is press a button to talk to the character”explained Endacott in a statement.