Well, well, well. It transpires that civil servants working across Whitehall are turning to artificial intelligence to figure out how different policy proposals will be received by their real government ministers. Mandarins from the Department for Education, the Home Office and even the Cabinet Office have been clocked signing up to software that enables them to chat with and test new ideas on AI ‘clones’ of senior politicians – before they take them to their human equivalents. How very interesting…
Civil servants working across Whitehall are turning to artificial intelligence to figure out how different policy proposals will be received by their real government ministers.
The new tech, created by Nostrada.ai, creates AI replicas of politicians by compiling their digital and parliamentary footprint – including every social media post they’ve made, quotes from government press releases and every single word they’ve said in parliament. The new gizmo then uses this information to allow users to chat with AI ministers, forecast policy outcomes and even test the reactions of these artificially engineered politicians to new proposals.
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