I’m not saying AI is superintelligent or can decide better than you can. I’m saying that if you - like me - spend an hour or so doing research before voting on local seats, AI can aid that research very effectively. And if you don’t do that research - because you weren’t willing to waste an hour on it before - AI makes it so much faster that you might want to start.
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This was a good enough experience that if I didn’t have an hour or two to do this properly, I would trust Claude’s endorsement over competing cheap-and-fast ways to determine my vote (party-line, newspaper endorsements, NGO endorsements, who has the funniest name). And given that I did spend two hours doing this properly, I think I’m about 50% happier with my choices than I would have been without AI.
I do use AI, but in a more mundane way. I asked ChatGPT to find newspaper endorsements. I might use it to find in-depth articles about candidates. Basically I'd use it as a search engine.
I do use AI, but in a more mundane way. I asked ChatGPT to find newspaper endorsements. I might use it to find in-depth articles about candidates. Basically I'd use it as a search engine.
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I do use AI, but in a more mundane way. I asked ChatGPT to find newspaper endorsements. I might use it to find in-depth articles about candidates. Basically I'd use it as a search engine.