Germany's center-left government wants to lower the voting age for nationwide elections from 18 to 16. Many young people support the idea, but the majority of the population has expressed skepticism.
What do you think? Personally I'm all for it. I think it's important to have as many young people involved in politics to counteract the old majority.
At this point in time we also could get ChatGPT manage this land… I don’t think it would make a difference to lower the age.
The „babyboomer“ are way more active in the voting than the younger generation :s
So yes pleas lower the age to vote, also we need a maximum age for the Parlament!
The first part isn't serious you're right.
The rest of it is. I don't thing it would make a big different to lower the voting age in the outcome.
And i don't think it is a good idea, i remember my first voting i had no idea what to vote so i have vote "the lesser worst option" that i know to that time.
It has to change more than the voting age in this system to work properly again...
My situation was the same as yours, but I think it would have been like that no matter what age. I'm not sure it's a good idea either, but fact is there are kids who're politically active and can't vote, and that seems a little silly. Democracy's whole thing is that it doesn't exclude.
I could hypothetically imagine a world where an AI could run a country, but we are a long way from that point with the existing systems that we call "AIs". They are optimized to produce responses that look human-like, but their model of the world is different from a human's, and pretty limited.
But even aside from that, the point of voting is to keep the interests of the leader more-or-less in line with that of the public. You're probably going to need some kind of mechanism like that. Specifically with AI, understanding how to align future increasingly-capable goal-directed AIs and human interests is a major issue; it may not even be a problem that can be solved.