Posted 2/27/2024, 3:00:00 PM
Congressional Candidate Uses AI Phone Banking Startup to Reach Voters at Fraction of Cost
- Congressional candidate Peter Dixon is using AI phone banking technology from startup Civox to reach voters
- The AI sounded convincingly human, was able to understand and respond to questions, and lasted a 10-minute phone call
- Civox CEO Ilya Mouzykantskii says the AI works like ChatGPT, using a large language model trained on political campaign data
- AI phone banking costs 5-15 cents per call compared to $1.25-$1.50 for human callers, a potential cost savings
- Expert Jim Ross is skeptical that AI solves the main challenge - getting voters to answer calls in the first place