In fact, in Tokyo, there’s a 33 years old, Takahiro Anno-san, who run for governor using exactly this stack. He used Talk to the City, which is a generative AI summarization tool for social media to monitor anyone who want to contribute platform ideas to his campaign. And he decide to run a month before the governor election, he has no party, nobody have heard of him, he just read this book called Plurality, which I co-wrote, and decided to run. And then he made a AI avatar of himself livestreaming 24/7 and so you can literally call into a line and talk to an AI voice clone of Anno and suggest your platform. And at the end of the day before election, independent think tanks ranked his platform, the crowdsource platform, as even better than Koike-san’s platform who, nevertheless, won the re-election of course but now Koike-san taps Anno-san to become the advisor to GovTech Tokyo to apply this what they call broad listening system to keep the feedback loop going between the Tokyo people and the city government. So, a version of this is already happening.

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