They don't want to use the word 'arbitrariness'. Instead, they say "discretion". Discretion helps institutions make right decisions, they say.

Our current representative system is a land line way of thinking in a mobile phone world. This fixed number of representatives and seasonal elections is nonsense. I should be able to change representatives with the same ease I can change my cell phone carrier. Once we get there, then let's worry about whether the representative I choose is a human or an AI.

> Next up: machine driven decision making.

We already have that when you buy something and a security alarm goes off as you leave the store. You are assumed to be a criminal because a machine said so.

Other way around for me. I'm going to home depot regularly for various home projects and the alarm goes off almost every time when I exit.

I have never gotten anything more than a bored looking sales associate casually waving at me to keep walking out.

Try walking out of the Manhattan store without their goon insisting on a receipt check after you've been forced to operate the register yourself.

That's illegal so you might get a nice settlement if you press your rights and the "goon" assaults you.

>You are assumed to be a criminal because a machine said so.

Not really. At least where I live, the false positive rates are high enough that people would walk right past, or the employees would wave them through because they're holding store branded bags. A more egregious example would be the algorithmic bail systems that some states are deploying.

Bail has been algorithmic for many years, based on previous offenses and seriousness of crime.

The new horror is machine learning algorithms that make decisions based on hidden inappropriate discriminatory factors.