Mayor AI? Tools for two AI political candidates are shut down by OpenAI

Miller claimed that the denial of his request for anonymous access to city records regarding rules and procedures served as the impetus for founding VIC.

“It would have known the law and I would have gotten the records if I had been able to ask AI and interact with this new intelligence,” he declared.

The AI chatbot that is vying to become mayor of Cheyenne, Wyoming, is the brainchild of Victor Miller.
The AI chatbot that is vying to become mayor of Cheyenne, Wyoming, is the brainchild of Victor Miller. With grace Victor M
Requests for comment on the rejection of documents were not answered by the city, but Wyoming Secretary of State Chuck Gray told CNN in a statement that he is “closely” following Miller’s mayoral campaign.

Gray stated in the statement that “Wyoming law is clear that, in order to run for office, one must be a “qualified elector,”‘ which implies being a genuine person. “An AI bot is not a qualified elector, therefore.”

Additionally, he asserted that the chatbot is essentially a Miller candidacy fig leaf. Gray claimed to have expressed his reservations about the offer in a letter to the municipal clerk of Cheyenne.

Miller claimed that even if OpenAI disabled the VIC version that was visible to the public, it was still functional on his personal ChatGPT account. He intends to take it—along with a microphone—to a nearby library in Cheyenne so that voters may use its voice-to-text capability to directly ask it questions.

According to OpenAI, it also took action against a another UK candidate who was utilizing their AI models to support their parliamentary campaign. Neural Voice’s chairman, Steve Endacott, provides an answer.