Watson for president

[mgc1961]

Since the U.S. Supreme Court has decided that corporations are people, why can't computers be politicians?

Watson for president! Better yet, let's make clones of Watson — the computer IBM engineers built to clobber two human Jeopardy! champions last week — and put them to work in Congress and state legislatures.

Machines programmed to make decisions based on facts and logic would be an improvement over many of the human robots controlled by special interests who now run our government.

Big-money influence has always been a problem in politics. But the floodgates were opened last year when an activist Supreme Court majority expanded the legal idea that corporations are people. They overturned decades of campaign finance law and allowed corporations and unions to spend huge amounts of often-anonymous money to influence elections.



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[BanzaiBonnie]

1. I'd trust Watson more than I trust the corporates

I wonder if we could utilize his services for long range planning.