In a bizarre turn of events, shadow cabinet members have been testing their attack lines on a “digital twin” of their opposite number before facing them in the Commons
Tory frontbenchers are practising their debating skills using AI generated cabinet clones. Shadow cabinet members have been testing their attack lines on a “digital twin” of their opposite number before facing them in the Commons.
British firm Nostrada AI has created digital versions of all 650 MPs, with several senior Tories registering for the platform. Conservatives have met with executives at the company to discuss how the technology can be used to “war-game” their dispatch box appearances.
The MPs can put questions to the clones through a chatbot to help predict how the real minister will react. They can then adjust their questions based on the responses they get.
The bots are based on thousands of political speeches from the Commons chamber to ensure they have the same views as the real minister. A Conservative source said: “Labour ministers are so predictably wooden and stuck in their failing ways that even AI can predict what they will say.
“The sad story of Starmer’s failing government is an obvious and repeating pattern.” Nostrada founder Leon Emirali said some Labour backbenchers had also signed up to the platform.
“It’s indicative really of the evolution of politics,” he said. Slovenian and Spanish governments used a Nostrada AI clone of PM Sir Keir Starmer in May to prepare for post-Brexit negotiations with Britain.
And former Ukrainian deputy PM Mykhailo Fedorov also used the Starmer clone to predict how Britain would react to Trump and Putin’s peace talks in August.
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