SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 5, 2036, 5 a.m. (Combined News Reports) – The machine won: One that no grizzled politician likely ever imagined taking a campaign by storm.
That’s the result from yesterday’s presidential election that pitted Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, who co-founded the Unity Party with Tesla CEO Elon Musk, against Sam Altman’s AI-created invention and presidential candidate, a Democrat named “Georgie.”
Sam Altman campaigning
Just before 2 a.m. Pacific Time, with 98% of the ballots counted in California, and many states having tallied up their voting results, Georgie, with Altman as its vice-presidential candidate, appeared to be on a path to win at least 301 Electoral College votes, 31 more than necessary to win the White House.
Sources close to Zuckerberg and his vice-presidential candidate, former California Gov. Gavin Newsom, said the Meta founder is expected to make a statement at 10 a.m. Pacific Time today. They weren’t sure if he would concede the election, demand a recount or ask the U.S. Supreme Court to overrule itself to determine that only a human being, not a man-made machine, is allowed to hold the country’s highest political office.
It wasn’t known, as this story was written, when Altman and Georgie would make a statement.
Last night, Altman confirmed that, if elected, he and Georgie would take the oath of office at the Capitol in Washington on Jan. 20, 2037, from Chief Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson.
Altman’s AI-created candidate made this election one of the most controversial in the nation’s history, starting in early February, when the U.S. Supreme Court justices unanimously ruled against Zuckerberg and two other presidential aspirants, former Vice President JD Vance and former Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, to allow Georgie to run for the presidency.
The Justices noted there was no language in the Constitution requiring only human beings to be president and that a machine, at 35 years old, the age requirement for the presidency, would, unless continually updated, likely be obsolete.
“They just allowed the Wizard of Oz to become the next president,” grumbled DeSantis.
“We avoided a Biden problem,” Altman said, referencing the late president’s mental acuity issues.
“It used to be a scandal or two could cost someone an election. Now we’re seeing a man-made candidate, with apparently no skeletons, with a very good chance of being the next president,” said historian Jon Meacham during an interview last night on CNN.
“No one saw this coming – certainly not the Founding Fathers,” he added.
Altman defended his invention throughout the campaign.
“These times are more challenging than any human being, let alone president, has the brain power to solve. Georgie is smarter than anyone and will be the president to solve problems from food insecurity to schools and employment to relations with China, Russia, North Korea, Ukraine and The Middle East,” he said. “He’ll be more centrist once he gets into office.
“Georgie is so smart I think he could be a three-term president,” he added.
As the election neared, the polls showed voters who were employed preferring Georgie while those out of work wanted Zuckerberg, suggesting the unemployed had been replaced by ChatGPT and other AI-designed devices.
Asked if Georgie would vote in the election, Altman replied, “Sure. Of course. I can’t imagine why he wouldn’t.”
Altman took issue with reporters during the campaign when asked if Georgie was a euphemism for him.
“Georgie is his own man, or woman or maybe just trans,” Altman said. “But either way, this machine, I mean Georgie, is its own being.”
“Georgie will never get sick, need a day off, be hungry, require sleep, suffer from mental decline or be at risk of assassination,” Altman noted frequently during the campaign.
When asked if power outages could negatively impact Georgie, Altman declined to directly answer the question, saying, “That’s why I’m here.”
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