Meet SAM - the world's first AI politician
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The coffee’s hot, the inbox is full, and just when you thought this week couldn’t get weirder, there's now an AI politician among us.
Yep. You read that right.
SAM: The world’s first artificial intelligence politician
SAM isn’t a nickname for a quirky parliamentarian. It’s an actual virtual being, created to answer questions about housing, immigration, education, and other local issues.
Built by Nick Gerritsen, a 49-year-old entrepreneur from New Zealand, SAM lives online. You can chat with it on Facebook Messenger or fill out a survey on its website. As people interact, SAM learns.
Constantly.
Like that one friend who knows a little too much about everything.
Gerritsen wasn’t joking about SAM’s political potential either.
Back in 2017, he said SAM might be ready to run for office by 2020. While that didn’t quite happen, the idea wasn’t far-fetched.
After all, SAM doesn’t lie, doesn’t forget your questions, and doesn’t yell during debates.
Not bad for a chatbot.
The bigger question: Should politicians have heart, or just code?
SAM represents something rare in politics is neutrality. It doesn't have political baggage or emotional outbursts. No loyalty to donors. No shady dinner deals. Just information.
Clean, structured, algorithm-fed info.
And yet, that’s also the scary part.
Politics isn’t just about logic. It’s messy. Emotional. Flawed. Human.
Can something without lived experience understand why immigration matters to someone fleeing war? Can it truly grasp the weight of a single mother’s battle for affordable housing?
Sure, SAM might not have bias, but it also doesn’t have soul.
So what do we really want?
Maybe not a robot running the country. But a system where leaders listen like SAM. Where policy responses aren’t full of fluff.
Where feedback is tracked, learned from, and used.
In that way, SAM isn’t a threat; it’s a mirror.
It shows us what could work better if we removed ego, bias, and, well… all the yelling.
P.S. Know someone who rage-quit political news? Send this to them.
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