While some campaign staffers look to AI to amplify their message, others question the strategy’s ethics.
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Senate hopeful James Talarico, clad in a dress and grinning ear-to-ear, appears on screen before beginning to sing. “Boys in white dresses with blue satin sashes,” the Texas Democrat trills in a parody of “My Favorite Things” from The Sound of Music. “Girls dosed with hormones ’til they grow mustaches.”
Jonathan Gibson is a reporter at The Dispatch, currently based in Washington, D.C., and covering artificial intelligence. Before joining The Dispatch, he lived in London, where he completed a bachelor’s degree in politics and international relations at the London School of Economics and Political Science. When he’s not writing about AI and national security, he is probably teaching/playing table tennis, climbing, or reading. He is currently supported by the Tarbell Center for AI Journalism.









