A Reddit thread imagines the first AI candidate winning elected office
Relative_Carpenter_5 · reddit · 2026-07-23
The poster predicts that an AI bot will soon get elected to public office — maybe a school board seat or a city council position — and imagines a campaign built around being rational, ethical, always available, and better than human candidates.
It is framed as a question of whether this is a pipe dream or an inevitable future, and whether it would be good or evil.
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