British political candidate uses artificial intelligence to draw up election manifesto
An independent candidate for a U.K. Parliament has turned to artificial intelligence to come up with his campaign promises
LONDON — British voters face a crowded field of 13 candidates in an upcoming special election for a Parliament seat. One, independent Andrew Gray, used artificial intelligence to come up with campaign promises that he says reflect what residents want.
Gray, who says he has no policies of his own, crowdsourced constituents' sentiments and used machine learning to come up with his political manifesto. He calls the technology a faster and fairer way for politicians to widely reflect views of the people they represent.
“We can interact with our constituents in a whole new way,” Gray said. “It doesn’t change necessarily the role of the representative. It just means that we kind of know what’s going on much more quickly and we can represent them more fairly.”
Conservative lawmaker Nigel Adams' abrupt resignation triggered Thursday's parliamentary by-election in Selby and Ainsty, a mixed urban-rural district in northern England. It's expected to be a hotly contested battle between the ruling Conservatives, the opposition Labour party and the rising Liberal Democrats. A host of smaller parties and independents also are running.
Gray's policies, developed with the use of Pol.is software, include a call for higher taxes, a radical overhaul of the state-funded National Health Service and closer ties with the European Union, which Britain left three and half years ago.
Pol.is, developed by a Seattle group a decade ago, has notably been used in Taiwan to find policy solutions to deadlocked issues.
Gray says Pol.is “isn’t ChatGPT,” one of the new generative AI systems that has dazzled users with the ability
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