Instead of asking humans who they would vote for, try to understand the nuances of their thoughts and concerns, let those messages bubble up to candidates so they can adjust their campaign to meet voters’ demand, instead of that, why not just segment humans into a bunch of shallow stereotypes (the socialist Millennial, the conservative Boomer, the liberal city dweller, the rancorous rural voter who feels left behind…) and then have some AI agents replicate how those people would respond?

Surely nothing could go wrong.

  • I did a political phone poll once, it was confusing and terrible. By the end I was just making up answer because the questions and the mostly agree/disagree answers didn’t fit very well.