An AI to run the government? Romanian PM gets AI adviser ‘Ion’ to tell him what people want

Romania Prime Minister Nicolae Ciuca presented to the World his “new honorary adviser”, which is an artificial intelligence assistant called “Ion”, whom the prime minister hailed as the first-of-its-kind in the World. Ion, which has been developed by Romanian researchers, will have the main task of scanning the social networks and then informing the government “in real time of Romanians’ proposals and wishes”, said Ciuca on Wednesday. The prime minister said that his entourage’s latest member, which is a mirror-like structure that has a beeping interface, has been marked “an international firs…

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