Back in March, we all couldn’t help but watch with trepidation as Senator Bernie Sanders sat in a darkened room and interrogated a smartphone running an instance of the Claude chatbot, and then later said he had spoken to an “AI agent.” The resulting video looked like a scene from an A24 horror movie. It was an unsettling stunt from a not-so-tech-savvy politician, but it was at the very least an elected official trying something when it came to AI.

So much has changed in the past few months that now countless would-be elected officials are trying something too. In fact, according to new data from the Washington Post, 40% of current races in…

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