The Synthetic Party (Denmark)

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The Synthetic Party
Det Syntetiske Parti
Chairman Leader Lars
Founded2022
HeadquartersHøje Taastrup
Ideology Techno-populism
Radical democracy
Transhumanism
Website
www.DetSyntetiskeParti.org

Det Syntetiske Parti (English: The Synthetic Party) is the world's first political party driven by artificial intelligence [1] [2] with the goal of making generative text-to-text models not merely populist, what they are by default, but democratic. [3] The party was founded in 2022 in Denmark. [4]

Contents

AI is already populist by default in a certain sense (...) But even if it's populist, it's not democratic just yet. [3]

Founder

A philosopher from Aarhus University and a conceptual artist Asker Bryld Staunæs is the party founder and continuous party secretary. [5]

Main goal

The political goals have been machine learned from texts by Danish fringe parties since 1970 and represent the 20 percent of Danes who do not vote in the election. It's a synthetic party, so many of the policies, such as universal basic income, can be contradictory to one another.

International collaborations

The Synthetic Party has signed bilateral collaboration agreements with The Finnish AI Party [6] and The Japanese AI Party [7] concerning the development of a global project created around artificial intelligence and politics [8]

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