After Albania, which has acquired AI, Japan has a series, which has announced that leader of a small party will be a … chatbot.

The newly established Japanese party “Path to rebirth»Revealed his plans to designate as ‘leader’ a chatbot with penguinafter the disappointing results of the elections, which prompted his founder to resign from the leadership.

THE Crackwho won the party’s elections, is a doctoral student specializing in artificial intelligence, but seems to not want to take on the responsibilities of a leader. So she announced that “The new leader will be AI‘ and he himself will have the role of assistant.

‘The party will assign decision making to artificial intelligence’, He stressed.

The reason the form of a penguin was chosen is as Indicator of the Japanese love for animalsOkumura noted. However, AI cannot participate in the elections, as the electoral law requires candidates to be Japanese citizens and of course people. So the lounge will remains formally head.

Speaking to CNN, the artificial intelligence described his vision to makes all decisions related to party functions.

“I think it has the ability to achieve things more accurately than people. This approach allows us to consider Carefully voices often ignoredpossibly creating a more comprehensive and human environment for political participation‘he said.

The party, which according to its website is based on the belief that whoever interested in politics must have a chancewas founded in January by Sinji Isimarua former mayor of Akitakata, a city with nearly 26,000 inhabitants in western Japan.

Isimarou became known after winning second place in the election of Tokyo’s Governor last year, thanks to his successful online campaign. However, resigned from leadership in Augustsince the party failed to secure no seat Neither in the capital’s local elections nor in the national elections for the upper parliament.

Observers have expressed reservations about the drawing of the lounge, saying that It’s bold and how voters are not ready for a party depends to such an extent on AI.

But he stresses: “We head to a world where we will interact with artificial intelligence. If this happens, how should we move on with the social and political systems that we have considered data so far? “. “We want to be the first to carry out this experiment at the cutting edge of technology‘, added.