
Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Shutterstock AI chatbots and politicians who aren’t even pretending to try anymore are a match made in heaven. Exhibit A: Canadian lawmaker Bill Oliver, who made a strange, cyborgian digression in a speech addressing the New Brunswick legislature last month. “Public confidence in the office of an advocate matters,” Oliver intoned, before offering a bizarre non sequitur. “Here’s a more natural, flowing