The AI Clones Are Coming! But It’s Not All Bad

(Bloomberg Opinion) — Mark Sewards, a British member of parliament in the northern city of Leeds, recently launched what he called the country’s first AI prototype of an MP. Cue the backlash. X users were the most vitriolic, calling Sewards “lazy” and branding the project “appalling.” The press sneered at his “weird” and “dithering” chatbot, complaining it couldn’t follow a Leeds accent.

Then again, most politicians dodge questions with robotic answers, and many wouldn’t make out the heavy twang of Northern England.