A network of 150 accounts hijacked keywords around Keir Starmer during the UK election, flooding social platforms with AI-generated videos until they’d racked up billions of views. The Guardian documented the operation this week: coordinated timing, repetitive messaging, volume designed to trigger algorithmic amplification before platforms could respond. Narrative dominance has become an ignition problem. […]
Every campaign strategist knows dialogue beats broadcast. Door-knocking outperforms TV ads. Personal relationships built through conversations change minds better than mass messaging. Yet the constraint was always scale—you can’t have meaningful back-and-forth with millions of voters. Research published this week in Nature and Science shows AI chatbots replicate dialogue’s persuasive power at industrial scale. Conversational […]
Big Tech spent $50 million in nine months trying to kill state AI regulations. Steve Bannon is calling AI “the most dangerous technology in the history of mankind.” David Sacks says it’s the new space race. They’re both Republicans. As lobbying dollars flow, release timelines accelerate, and uncertainty grows, Democrats are surprisingly absent from the […]
I’d like to introduce you to something I call the Chipmunk problem. Associates at government affairs firms spend entire days watching congressional hearings, briefings and other video content on 2x speed where every member sounds like a chipmunk, just to pull out the sections that matter. Thanks for reading The Influence Model! Subscribe for free […]
Happy Monday, There’s a three-week problem in Washington, and I’m building the solution. Thanks for reading The Influence Model! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work. Grassroots campaigns are effective but incredibly challenging to orchestrate. Mobilizing advocates on-message takes weeks. By the time your advocates are ready, the issue has already […]
This week I spoke to Jon Kokot, who’s building Civic after watching Congress drown in constituent communications that AI could actually resolve. He’s tackling workflows specific to the Hill—inbox triage, sentiment tracking, response drafting—but the model works for any organization managing thousands of stakeholder relationships. The efficiency gains are remarkable. The adoption barriers are entirely […]
Welcome back to The Influence Model, your weekly roundup of how AI is reshaping influence and policy persuasion in Washington. Last week on The Influence Model podcast, said something that stuck with me: with AI, any problem that optimizes with language is now essentially solvable. Large Language Models (LLMs) work by taking words, assigning them […]
Welcome back to The Influence Model, your weekly roundup of how AI is reshaping influence and policy persuasion in Washington. Let’s get right into it. The Rundown The Signals: Five signals showing AI’s growing sophistication in predicting and shaping human behavior Thanks for reading The Influence Model! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and […]
Welcome to the first edition of The Influence Model, a weekly newsletter for Washington insiders about how AI is reshaping the practice of influence and policy persuasion. There’s a missing piece of the AI conversation in Washington. There are more than enough newsletters covering the horserace of AI product releases or the rising influence of […]
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