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Robin Ashby

AI and Liberal Democracy

By Robin Ashby | Thu 11th June 2026 - 10:26 am

William Hague wrote in The Times this week that the key new phrase in politics is “recursive self-improvement” — AI systems that autonomously design their own successors. He is right that politics must catch up. He is wrong to imply it hasn’t started yet. In some quarters it has. The Liberal Democrats, if we are paying attention, have the intellectual architecture already in place.

There are three arguments. Each has prior form in Lib Dem thinking. Each has been transformed by AI into something urgent …

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    Yes thanks for the analysis. I don't think it matters too much for the winning party if their % share falls. The Lib Dems have won seats recently with % share d...
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    Embarrassing....