In Us We Trust

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Democracy is failing; the representatives we’ve assigned to make decisions on our behalf are hardly representative of and rarely represent their constituents. What if there were a way to ensure that every voice is heard, a way to govern by electing a mathematically perfect decision-making body—a virtual congress? Can we harness the technology and techniques advertisers and social platforms use to profile customers and instead profile citizens? Imagine we create a more inclusive democracy by shifting influence away from elected officials toward artificially intelligent representatives: 340 million algorithms always connected, immune to influence, and perfectly aligned to the values and beliefs of every individual.