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 […]
Welcome back to The Influence Model, your weekly roundup of how AI is reshaping influence and opinion shaping in Washington. Coca-Cola just released their AI-generated holiday campaign. Again. After last year’s backlash, they doubled down. The “Holidays Are Coming” trucks are back, only this time every truck has a different number of wheels because consistency […]
If you’ve been following the AI race long enough, you eventually stop watching for product releases and start thinking about the second order consequences of abundant intelligence. I remember the first time I used GPT-3. I dropped in a few lines of ad copy and asked, “Give me 50 variations.” It did. Instantly. Every one […]
Mike Johnson stood at the podium and said it plainly: “The president uses social media to make a point. He is using satire to make a point.” He was defending an AI-generated video Trump posted showing himself dropping feces on protesters from a fighter jet. Yes, you read that right. He wasn’t defending the tastelessness […]
AI labs love coming to Washington and talking about the future of work. But they’re careful not to talk too much about how AI changes our elections and opinion shaping efforts. That’s far less certain and can be, in some cases, far more contentious. Nathan Sanders and Bruce Schneier from HBR just documented what AI […]
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 […]