Just Wait Until Trump Is a Chatbot

Earlier this week, the Republican National Committee released a video that it claims was “built entirely with AI imagery.” The content of the ad isn’t especially novel—a dystopian vision of America under a second term with President Joe Biden—but the deliberate emphasis on the technology used to create it stands out: It’s a “Daisy” moment for the 2020s.

We should expect more of this kind of thing. The of AI to political have not escaped campaigners, who are already “” possible uses for the technology. In the 2024 presidential-election campaign, you can bank on the appearance of AI-generated personalized fundraising emails, text messages from chatbots urging you to vote, and maybe even some deepfaked campaign . Future candidates could use chatbots trained on data representing their views and personalities to approximate the act of directly connecting with people. Think of it like a with an appearance in every living room. Previous technological revolutions—railroad, radio, television, and the World Wide about a woman who used thousands of text messages to create a chatbot replica of her best friend after he died.