[sashenka]

Why would anything but a human need democracy?

[klyrs]

The article notes that bees cooperate through direct democracy, as they probably have done long before Greeks uttered the word.

[sashenka]

I meant why would humans grant democratic rights to anything that isn't human.

[klyrs]

History has plenty of examples of expanding suffrage to people once considered non-persons. The article lists a few examples of precedent of non-humans being recognized as persons in a handful of countries.

[bediger4000]

Couldn't AIs have differing opinions? Due to the Incompleteness Theorems, we know that not everything true is probable (deducable). So even some thinking entity with a lot of computational power can't know everything.

[oneoff786]

There’s no particular reason to assume ai would be objective and factual beings.

[feet]

Why so humans need it?