{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"Use AI This Election","description":"I\u2019m not saying AI is superintelligent or can decide better than you can. I\u2019m 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\u2019t do that research - because you weren\u2019t willing to waste an hour on it before - AI makes it so much faster that you might want to start. I gave Claude a prompt something like (edited for coherence): I\u2019ll be voting in the June 2026 California primary. I\u2019m a centrist liberal abundance YIMBY whose favorite political writers are Kelsey Piper, Matt Yglesias, and Ezra Klein. I\u2019m wary of government overreach, but I\u2019m not a doctrinaire libertarian and want to help people when we can figure ways to do it that work. I\u2019m going to ask you about each race on my ballot, and I\u2019d like for you to list the various candidates\u2019 bios, policies, endorsements, your read on the most important differences between them, and your advice for me as I try to make my choice. \u2026and got back answers like the following: https:\/\/www.astralcodexten.com\/p\/use-ai-this-election ","author_name":"Astral Codex Ten Podcast","author_url":"http:\/\/sscpodcast.libsyn.com\/website","html":"