To do this, we must capitalize on the strengths and minimize the weaknesses of both artificial intelligence (AI) and human intelligence. The way forward is for people to work collaboratively with machines to produce results not otherwise possible. In an essay explaining their work, they summarizes the approach thusly: What can be done? Automate it - at least partially, say Wendy Tam Cho and Bruce Cain in the latest issue of Science, which has a special section dedicated to “democracy.” Cho, who teaches at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, has been pursuing computational redistricting for years, and just last year was an expert witness in an ACLU lawsuit that ended up overturning Ohio’s gerrymandered districts as unconstitutional. It’s so effective that it’s become commonplace - so much so there’s even a font made out of gerrymandered districts shaped like letters. Ordinarily, districts that correspond to electoral votes within a state are drawn essentially by hand, and partisan operatives on both sides of the aisle have used the process to create distorted shapes that exclude hostile voters and lock in their own.
The solution may be an AI system that draws voting districts with an impartial hand. By legally changing the way votes are collected and counted, the outcomes can be influenced - even fixed in advance for years.
Gerrymandering is one of the most insidious methods out there of influencing our political process.
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