A new survey showed that more than half of Europeans want artificial intelligence to replace legislators.

Today, leaders worldwide employ this same strategy to stay in power for as long as they wish. For example, Joe Biden, the current Vice President of the United States, has been in politics since 1973. That's over half a century. According to John Reuter, the divide and conquer approach seeks to "urge the general public to live in conflict with one another to prevent them from uniting against those already in power." The separation is usually ideological, such as colour, gender identity, class, sexual orientation, religion, age, and many other factors.

A recent study undertaken by academics from IE University's Center for Change Governance According to their findings, most Europeans would prefer to see some of their members of parliament replaced by algorithms. The results, released on Thursday, revealed that, despite AI's evident flaws, 51 per cent of Europeans supported such a move.

Researchers questioned 2,769 people from 11 nations how they would feel about lowering the number of national legislators in their country and handing those seats to an AI with access to their data as part of the study.

However, not all governments agree that giving control to machines, which can be hacked or act in ways that people do not want them to, is a good idea.

According to Oscar Jonsson, academic director of IE University's Center for the Government of Change and one of the report's key researchers, there has been a "decades-long fall in belief in democracy as a form of governance."

Overall, the survey indicated that attitudes differ greatly by generation, with younger individuals significantly more receptive to the notion. Opinions also vary considerably by generation, with more youthful individuals being substantially more open to the idea that over 60% of Europeans aged 25-34 and 56% of those aged 34-44 supported the notion, but most of those aged 55 and beyond did not.

AI is unlikely to fix all of the world's political concerns. Perhaps we should impose an age restriction on politicians and replace the dinosaurs with young fresh minds.