AI Steve, the electoral and cybernetic alter ego
AI Steve, the electoral and cyber alter ego of Steven Endacott, a businessman from Brighton, has stood in the Election with disappointing results. In Brighton Pavillion, her constituency, she got just 179 votes, while Green Party candidate Sian Berry beat her by 28,000 votes. This defeat is even worse than the one he suffered in 2022, when Endacott stood in the local elections in Rochdale without the help of AI and managed only 487 votes, not enough to be elected.
An experiment that didn’t work
Endacott hoped that AI Steve, designed by Neural Voice, a company of which he is chairman, would be his winning card. According to Endacott, AI Steve was ‘ultra-intelligent’ and had the ability to hold up to 10,000 conversations at once. However, this strategy has not convinced the voters and it seems that the use of AI has not been an advantage for Endacott.
A unique proposal
Endacott’s proposal was that, if AI Steve was elected, he would act as a ‘mere intermediary’ and citizens could send queries to AI Steve 24 hours a day. Queries would be answered by a generative AI applicator and evaluated by ‘validators’. If more than 50% of the validators considered that a proposal was correct, it would be processed as if it had been made by the parliamentarian. Despite this unique proposition, AI Steve has failed to capture the attention of voters and has garnered just 0.3% of the vote in the British election.
Disappointing results
The election results have been disappointing for Endacott. Even Ciutadans, which got only 0.7% of the votes in the European elections, has obtained a better percentage result than AI Steve. Despite efforts to promote AI Steve as an ‘ultra-intelligent’ option, it seems that the English have not embraced this eccentric idea.