However, the use of such bots raises concerns about the potential for spreading disinformation at a large scale. There are also questions about the effectiveness of these bots, as potential voters are already overwhelmed with texts, emails, and phone calls from campaigns. Critics argue that a call from an AI bot may just be another reason for voters to hang up the phone.
Key takeaways:
- An AI chatbot named Ashley, developed by Civox, is being used for political phone banking. She can speak over 20 languages, recall political positions, and handle multiple conversations at once.
- Ashley was recently used to phone bank for Pennsylvania Democrat politician Shamaine Daniels, making thousands of calls.
- Civox CEO, Ilya Mouzykantskii, plans to scale up the use of Ashley, aiming to make tens of thousands of calls a day by the end of the year and into the six digits soon.
- Concerns have been raised about the potential misuse of such technology to spread disinformation, as well as questioning the effectiveness of bots in political campaigns due to the current inundation of spam content.