evidence: Did World Economic Forum co-founder Klaus Schwab advocate in public for stripping people of their right to vote and replacing elections with prediction algorithms powered by artificial intelligence? No, that's not true: In a 2017 talk, Schwab only wondered whether the use of such products could go as far as substituting for elections. By no means can his words be interpreted as a "call" for this in the given context. [...] SCHWAB: ... we don't know yet how's the technology will look like. But one fear which I have heard is, technology now is -- and digital technologies -- mainly have an analytical power, now we go into a predictive power. We have seen the first examples, and your company very much involved into it. But since the next step could be to go into prescriptive mode, which means you do not even have to have elections anymore because you can already predict what, predict, and afterwards you can say, 'Why do we need the elections?' -- because we know what the result will be. Can you imagine such a world? [...] As the excerpt above shows, Schwab did not "openly call for AI technology to replace democratic elections" -- he only theorized about one of the possibilities and its impacts on humanity. Brin did not give a straight answer, only noting that future generations may have a perspective that will be different from the concepts defining today's society.