The Politics Guys
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Can AI Make Campaign Texts Less Awful?

01 July 2026 36:36 The Politics Guys - Government Democracy & News

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Mike talks with Tom Carroll, co-founder and CEO of Convos, a controlled AI-powered texting platform designed to turn campaign texting from one-way blasts into two-way voter conversations. They discuss why campaign texts feel so spammy, how AI could help campaigns answer voter questions at scale, and whether conversational campaign texting is a useful democratic tool or just a more sophisticated form of political manipulation. Mike and Tom also dig into AI disclosure, hallucination risks, voter privacy, campaign data, banned topics, regulation, and why emerging AI campaign tools may be adopted differently by progressive, conservative, grassroots, and major-party campaigns. 

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