Fixing Lebanon with AI — a fiction series proposal

Dēmos — rough pitch for a drama series by Mikael Colville-Andersen.

Back in January, on a visit to Beirut, I started work on a tv series proposal and chose Lebanon as the country in which to set the series. There was good reason to choose Lebanon then and with recent events, it just become much more relevant and real. This is a fiction series. In rough form.

Dēmos

Two childhood friends from Copenhagen, Jonas and Anna, are preparing to launch the boldest Artificial Intelligence (AI) project the world has ever seen.

Jonas (25) is a young programming genius and Anna (25) studied political science at university. They have never lost sight of the idealism that formed their youth and when Jonas reveals to Anna the AI program he has been working on, she realizes that it has the potential for changing the world. Quite literally.

Democracy Ethos Model Operating System or DĒMOS - from the Greek for "the People" - is Jonas' complex AI program that can take over running a dysfunctional country in the interest of getting it on a solid, well-functioning democratic path. Jonas and Anna believe firmly in the need to export the efficient Danish/Nordic democratic model and social welfare institutions quickly and efficiently to less-functional democracies.

Dēmos' machine learning programming has acquired and analyzed all existing knowledge about every form of politics in human history, as well as social structures in every human culture and relevant…