Use AI This Election
The article discusses the potential benefits of using AI for research before voting in elections. It highlights how AI can streamline the process of gathering information about candidates and their policies. The author provides an example of using AI to analyze candidates for the California primary election in June 2026.
- ▪AI can assist voters in researching candidates and their policies more efficiently.
- ▪The California primary election for the Superintendent of Public Instruction is set for June 2, 2026.
- ▪Candidates are evaluated based on their alignment with specific educational philosophies and policies.
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| Original publisher | Astral Codex Ten |
| Canonical URL | https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/use-ai-this-election |
| Publication time | Tue, 26 May 2026 20:22:30 GMT |
| Retrieval time | 2026-05-26T20:37:54.148Z |
| Last seen | 2026-05-26T20:37:54.148Z |
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| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
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| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
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Use AI This Election...May 26, 2026211ShareI’m not saying AI is superintelligent or can decide better than you can. I’m 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’t do that research - because you weren’t 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’ll be voting in the June 2026 California primary. I’m a centrist liberal abundance YIMBY whose favorite political writers are Kelsey Piper, Matt Yglesias, and Ezra Klein. I’m wary of government overreach, but I’m not a doctrinaire libertarian and want to help people when we can figure ways to do it that work.
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Excerpt limited to ~120 words for fair-use compliance. The full article is at Astral Codex Ten.
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