“The AI revolution is underway and we have to accept it,” says Mark Sewards in X. As the BBC reports, the deputy of the British Labor Party collaborated with a new company specialized in artificial intelligence to create “AI Mark”.
It is an intelligent digital clone of yourself that aims to respond to the requests of the inhabitants of your constituency. The tool allows the deputy to better administer the influx of messages to which he must answer, but at the level of the voters, this asks questions.
A tool to respond to thousands of emails
Since its inauguration in 2024, Mark Sewards has had a great demand with more than 6,000 messages in space 3 months, a substantial work faced by this deputy for Yorkshire County.
“Share your concerns and get help,” says Mark AI on his website. Mark Sewards version AI became an alternative solution. The advantage for the deputy is to have an appearance of an interlocutor available at any time to deal with simple applications. It is also a way to free you more time to manage more complex situations.
But as the AI speaker points out, Susan Oman, interviewed by the BBC, who wants to be more present for his voters thanks to an AI, “could have the opposite effect, because they could feel less heard.” The elderly could be remarkably disturbed by the establishment of this chatbot.
Help more than a substitute
Ai Mark has not replaced politics and still remains in the prototype state. The deputy team is waiting to know if the results of AI are quite satisfactory before the total integration of the tool.
In an email sent to Washington Post, Mark Sewards explains that his clone could be particularly useful to “solve people’s problems while the office is closed.” However, remember that this tool is not intended to replace its workforce.
Chatbots, tool for new policies
Ai Mark is not the first digitized policy in the United Kingdom. In 2024, businessman Steve Endacott was presented in the legislative elections in the Brighton district under his avatar generated by AI, Steve AI. Although a great loser (with only 0.3% of the votes), these elections allowed their activities to highlight. His company, Neural Voice, is today behind Mark Sewards’s AI.
Other policies also use artificial intelligence tools. Recently, the Swedish prime minister admitted to consult Chatgpt as part of his duties. The chatbot allows it in particular to “have a second opinion” on certain issues.
We also know that Donald Trump is very fond of this technology, as evidenced by the many images and videos generated in his social account.
Source: BFM TV
